FW: BIND limits and performance questions
Derek J. Balling
dredd at megacity.org
Fri Mar 23 23:28:24 UTC 2001
At 11:19 PM +0100 3/23/01, Brad Knowles wrote:
>At 12:18 PM -0800 3/23/01, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>
>> If, all of a sudden, some (or many) largish sites (let's say, Hotmail,
>> Yahoo, MSN, Juno, AOL, etc.) was to start advertising 25 MX records,
>> pissing all over the 512-byte issue, and say "Hey, its a big record, if
>> you're not dealing with it properly that's your own business".... how
>> long would sites continue to run old/broken code when they couldn't
>> talk to -- or possibly even SEE -- large portions of the net?
>
> Been there, done that. Was personally blamed for the complete
>outage of all e-mail for the entire Internet during AOL's "Black
>Wednesday" 19-hour network failure.
>
> You try being personally blamed by Internet e-mail administrators
>from all around the world, many of whom have your private e-mail
>address.
Seems to me just a lack of management support then. Too many suits,
not enough engineers.
If $RANDOM_NET_ENGINEER says "hey, I can't reach $BIG_SITE any
more!", and its because $RANDOM_NET's DNS resolver is broken, I[1]
say "Tough, here's the spec, read it, know it, live it."
If $RANDOM_NET is starting to have queuing issues because they can't
see the MX's for $BIG_SITE that might prove adequate incentive to
actually find a resolver that follows the spec. :)
D
[1] That's _I_, definitely not the viewpoint of my own $BIG_SITE
employer, unfortunately.
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