Re: IPv6 and CDN's

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Mark Tinka wrote:

> > That facebook poorly managed their DNS to cause the recent disaster
> > is an important evidence to support my point that DNS, so often, may
> > not be helpful for network operations against disastrous failures,
> > including, but not limited to, DNS failures.
>
> Yes, but that does not mean that DNS is not valuable, or cannot be 
> hardened.

As a person who proposed anycast DNS servers, against which facebook
operated their DNS, I'm so sure you are right.

> I am certain Facebook have hardened their DNS infrastructure, and that 
> particular failure scenario should not recur, given all the clever 
> people there, and around them.

All I can see is that there were a lot of stupid people in facebook.

I really hope less of them still remain there.

                                                Masataka Ohta