Comcast DNS/POP performance question

[josephc at etards.net]

While Comcast uses only 4 IP's for their mailserves, they infact have 
scores of POP and SMTP servers handling requests.

-joe

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> 
> Thomas Lopolito wrote:
> 
> >I've called and asked for their Primary and Secondary DNS server IP
> >addresses as well as the gateway IP and they refused to give them to me.
> >They gave me Windows instructions but when I informed them I was using
> >linux, I was told I'm on my own. I tried to explain that was fine with
> >me; just tell me the addresses, but they couldn't get past the Windows
> >issue. I think the answer is that they really don't know and I'm not
> >sure how far up the food chain you have to go to get the info. I stopped
> >trying after the second supervisor.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Thanks.  It appears that Comcast uses a pool of four POP servers.  I 
> have noticed that my connection to their POP server is very slow 
> recently and access in general is slow.  I suppose it's due to the 
> switchover.  However, the POP server pool seems small and I don't like 
> that they don't divide the traffic by region.  i.e. performance 
> suffers.  Mediaone had a regional scheme but it must have been hard on 
> tech support and install techs.
> 
> 
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