12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
7:02 a.m.
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Wouldn't some form of route changing via BGP or whatever be preferable? Yep - but...
Some people are still scared of BGP. A few people arn't actually running BGP (or any dynamic protocol) to their upstreams... Different people want to fail over to different upstreams, both of which are statically announcing their netblocks... Other people want to protect against a single host failure rather than an entire routed block failure... And you can see why we get broken DNS implementations. Please people, think of the children. BGP is like the big friendly giant. Learn to use it to solve the task that it was designed to do, and load balancing for the tasks that it wasn't =) Dean