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On Thursday 13 August 2009 21:55:44 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> I believe gentoo.org uses Neustar UltraDNS, whose business exists for |
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> the purpose of providing high-availability DNS |
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Well I certainly hope that their actual technical infrastructure is better |
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than their marketing FUD. |
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I'm being directly targeted by Neustar's marketing machine but they are clever |
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and not actually mentioning the company by name. I have customer's complaining |
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that the Neustar sales rep tells them privately that @ALANS_EMPLOYER has crap |
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DNS, and now the customer wants reassurance. Which is a conversation I should |
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never be having. |
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Facts say otherwise though. 3 distributed auth servers across the planet, one |
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hidden primary pushing updates out, 12 caches distributed across the planet, |
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all in anycast so the customer automatically finds the closest one. Not just |
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customer records either - that system runs a TLD and two 2TLDs. Uptime is |
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1000+ days, and we have never had a DNS outage (and not from lack of trying by |
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the bad guys). |
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Inadequate DNS infrastructure? No, Neustar, I don't think so. In my country, |
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you can't even come close to what I have. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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