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Re: Summary with further Question: Domain Name System protection

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Tue Aug 17 00:50:34 2004 
On Aug 17, 2004, at 12:31 AM, [email protected] wrote:


4. Anycast is the most scalable and standard solution
for dispersed DNS server farm, while layer-4 switch
could deal could do with centralized server farm;

	its not a standard.

<ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1546.txt>, aka _Host Anycasting
Service_

Looks pretty standard to me.

	Nope.  Its -INFORMATIONAL-  e.g. Not a Standard.

Ahhh, I see.



Not to mention being used in production on several major networks for
over half a decade (read: "forever") on the Internet is pretty well
tested technology.

	true enough.  but not "the most scaleable and standard solution"
Yeah, well, neither is HTTP for that matter. But most people would consider both of them pretty standard(ized?).

I'm perfectly happy for someone to quote even an _informational_ RFC as a "standard". Guess I'm weird.

Sorry if everyone thinks differently.

--
TTFN,
patrick

P.S. That would be "i.e.". If you are going to argue semantic points, you should get your grammar right. =)