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