After contributing my .2ç to this usenet thread i remembered that today i first noticed one of our backbone rings to be split by our DNS graphs.

This is what it looked like:

<img src=”/static/files/ring-split-jumpy-small.png”

What happened is that one part of our recursive servers are situated in Duesseldorf while the other part sits in Frankfurt; both sites are reachable via the same Addresses due to use of iBGP anycast so the load gets split by the l3 routing decision. What we can see above is some of the DNS queries getting shifted from Duesseldorf to Frankfurt because at that time Berlin and eastern Germany were ‘nearer’ to Frankfurt than to Duesseldorf network topology wise because of a fibrecut between Berlin and Hannover.

So, nothing serious happened due to the ring structure, some DNS queries got shifted and some milliseconds added — business as usual you could say, nevertheless fun to watch with these graphs.

It seems the year where i take over this tiny planet has finally come, my clones and my supporters are buzzing their heads over the strategy and while it seems that our puppet might have a chance to win, we noticed that we had not initially calculated in this evil machine from California and need to be on the watch…

It’s not just over yet!

I don’t know who of my staff came up with it but i give it ten out of ten points for style anyways, please support my candidature with these nifty designs.