Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-23 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:36:22PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: * bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com (bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com) [Fri 13 Sep 2013, 22:16 CEST]: from where? to where? what % of the Internet is _not_ reachable from my DNS service at any given time? why is that

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Bakker
* bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com (bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com) [Fri 13 Sep 2013, 22:16 CEST]: from where? to where? what % of the Internet is _not_ reachable from my DNS service at any given time? why is that acceptable? and more importantly, who's job is it to

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-16 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 16/09/2013 17:36, Niels Bakker wrote: Is this thread even about authoritative or recursive DNS? as far as I can tell, it's about waves hands wildly Or something. Nick

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-16 Thread Sebastian Castro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/09/13 12:45, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:03:44 -0600, Phil Fagan said: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread Marco Davids (Prive)
On 09/13/13 03:53, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 9/12/2013 3:25 PM, Phil Fagan wrote: Its a good point about the anycast; 99.999% should be expected. A small choice of attitude-reflecting language. I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better. It depends... define 'lost queries'. For

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/13/2013 2:14 AM, Marco Davids (Prive) wrote: On 09/13/13 03:53, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 9/12/2013 3:25 PM, Phil Fagan wrote: Its a good point about the anycast; 99.999% should be expected. A small choice of attitude-reflecting language. I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better.

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread Phil Fagan
Tolerance for failure; I like it. Eric - I'm interested in an accepted norm of loss of queries made to the cache tier. Yes, when I provide a 'service' to a client (don't really care about SLA) i'm interested in what the accepted norm or guidance is on % loss on queries -- because this drives my

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-09-12 21:53, Larry Sheldon wrote: I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better. At these numbers, one has to start to count failover time. A system can be disaster tolerant but take 2 hours to recover fully, or it could also recover within a couple of seconds. It depends on

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:01:51PM -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: On 13-09-12 21:53, Larry Sheldon wrote: I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better. At these numbers, one has to start to count failover time. A system can be disaster tolerant but take 2 hours to recover

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-13, at 16:01, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-09-12 21:53, Larry Sheldon wrote: I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better. At these numbers, one has to start to count failover time. Before really any part of this thread makes sense, you

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Phil Fagan philfa...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? ICANN new gTLD

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Glen Wiley
(anycasted). On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Phil Fagan philfa...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? ... Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. this is the wrong question. the protocol is designed assuming query failures. randy

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Bryan Tong
remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618 -- Bryan Tong Nullivex LLC | eSited LLC

DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Phil Fagan
Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Phil Fagan
: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Phil Fagan
: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Beavis
I go with 99.999% given that you have a good number of DNS Servers (anycasted). On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Phil Fagan philfa...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Phil Fagan
Good reference; thank you. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Phil Fagan philfa...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread George William Herbert
On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? ... Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. this is the wrong question. the protocol is designed assuming query failures

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread George Michaelson
or expectation for DNS reliability? ... Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. this is the wrong question. the protocol is designed assuming query failures. randy I think it's part of the right answer. Capacity and server connectivity issues, what this metric will mostly

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
we're already outside our operating envelope not really. just some folk seem not to understand things such as udp datagrams and the dns protocols. randy

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread George Michaelson
you removed a clause in that sentence randy: we're already outside our operating envelope, if these community expectation figures are believable there is a point to that clause. its the same as your answer in some respects. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread George William Herbert
On Sep 12, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: we're already outside our operating envelope not really. just some folk seem not to understand things such as udp datagrams and the dns protocols. randy Statistically, UDP sometimes arrives after an internet wide round trip.

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:03:44 -0600, Phil Fagan said: Everything else remaining equal...is there a standard or expectation for DNS reliability? 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% Measured in queries completed vs. queries lost. Whats the consensus? Remember to factor in Duane Wessel's

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/12/2013 3:25 PM, Phil Fagan wrote: Its a good point about the anycast; 99.999% should be expected. A small choice of attitude-reflecting language. I expect 100.000% I'll accept 99.999% or better. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, George William Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: The other subthread about routeability plays into that. For BIGPLACE environments, you should be considering how many AS numbers independently host DNS instances for you, in how many geographical regions,

Re: DNS Reliability

2013-09-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 9/12/13 1:39 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: ICANN new gTLD agreements specified 100% availability for the service, meaning at least 2 DNS IP addresses answered 95% of requests within 500 ms (UDP) or 1500 ms (TCP) for 51+% of the probes, or 99% availability for a single name server, defined as 1 DNS