um, dude, can you say ANYCAST.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:50:28AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > > tld[12].ultradns.net, the NS for .ORG, was completely unreachable for about > an hour or two this evening, timing out on all DNS queries. Anyone else see > similar? (The hosts are unpingable and untracerouteable, so I had to use > DNS queries to determine when they were back up.) > > 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.... > > <sigh> > > -- > -- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>