Feb. 5, 2018
10:06 p.m.
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. -- P Vixie