On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote: > > > > > It makes me wonder how UltraDNS got a contract to manage the domain on all > > of two nameservers hosted on the same subnet, given that they were supposed > > to have deployed "geographically diverse" (or something like that) servers. > > But then, we know ICANN smokes the crack liberally at times.... > > Just because they hosts are on the same subnet and are apparently behind > the same end device for you doesn't make them non-geographically diverse > if they are really anycast pods, does it? It really just means one anycast > pod was down for a time :( > > It is one of the things that anycast makes difficult though :( > Troubleshooting anycast from the outside is a bear. >
Oh, and 'same subnet' doesn't mean 'same ethernet' all auth dns servers in 198.6.1.0/24 aren't on one ethernet, though it'd sure make MY life easier if they were :)