[rssac-caucus] Best Practices for the Distribution of Anycast Instances of the Root Name Service WP Conclusion
Paul Vixie
paul at redbarn.org
Mon Feb 5 22:06:03 UTC 2018
Wessels, Duane via rssac-caucus wrote:
> Section 3, third paragraph: I worry that this paragraph, which talks
> about DOS events, makes it sound like these are more serious or
> likely to occur than they really are. Has there ever been a time
> when a significant proportion of servers were unable to return
> answers in a timely manner? ...
yes. in 2001, only f-root was up continuously, loss free, from all
monitoring stations.
> ... I think its important to state these as
> reasons why we utilize anycast, but we should also not give the false
> impression that widespread unavailability is likely to happen.
i agree that softening this language is a good idea, because things are
not fragile today.
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P Vixie
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