[RobRich]

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Originally Posted by nemowolf

Depends on how they tiered their coverage. If the pipe is broken in Texas and they only have servers in Texas and Florida say, then anything sent may get stuck and not redirect to florida because the top level DNS isnt rerouting. The internets is weird.

Understood, and known. ;p

What I was simply getting at is an operation the size of Godaddy should have a multi-tier approach to service failover and redundancy for HTTP and DNS, with servers spread across several geographical areas and even backbones.