Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Susan Harris To: Dean Anderson Cc: nanog-admin@merit.edu Subject: Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL? Dean: Ad hominem attacks are prohibited on the NANOG mailing list. Please see our AUP: http://www.nanog.org/aup.html --Susan Harris, for the NANOG list admin team On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > > >> Or don't. No one here cares if you do. Reality trumps lab tests. > > > > > > "Reality" for the last ten years has been that no one did either > > > PPLB or > > > TCP DNS. That reality is changing. It'll probably start to change > > > faster, > > > sooner. Then, users will start to notice the problems. > > > > People have been using TCP applications on anycast for at least a > > decade, as I mentioned before. Since DNS responses tend to be very > > short lived TCP session, it seems to me that if it works for other > > applications (e.g. HTTP), it should work for DNS. > > Its funny how I give you TWO conditions, and you ignore one of them. I'll > try to use little tiny baby words: > > TCP Anycast does NOT work with PPLB (Per - packet - load - balancing) > Say it slowly several times. > > > > Either way, reality still trumps lab tests, or mailing lists posts. > > Since it has worked, and continues to work, in _THE REAL WORLD_ for > > TCP applications much longer lived than DNS, I suggest that your > > assertion that "users will start to notice the problems" is > > incorrect. Of course, time will tell which of us is correct. > > > > Maybe I'm insane. Or maybe you are. Although I think time has > > already told which of us is.... > > Yes, indeed, it has. I've been vindicated on a number of issues on a > number of subjects. You? > > -- > Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? > www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service > 617 344 9000 > > > > !DSPAM:4269bfb6286673108810813! > >