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I'm very surprised that they rely on a single vendor. But I guess DNS is one of those things you don't think about until it fails.
by aristus 17y ago
I'm very surprised that they rely on a single vendor. But I guess DNS is one of those things you don't think about until it fails.
- metachor 17y agoThe point of using UltraDNS is that it they provide fast "real-time" failover of DNS routing. This is used, for example, for fault tolerance where the IP address responding to a domain name might change due to failure scenarios or load balancing (where a different server is now primary responder to the domain name, maybe located in a different data center or country). Infrastructure-wise, UltraDNS is kind of like the Akami of DNS, instead of content distribution.