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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ISP network design of non-authoritative caches
I've always advocated that at least one caching DNS be located in every
POP. In the old days, I designed it right into the NAS router(s).
In the original IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, the routers announced the DNS,
so that it could be in the router or on a separate device.
Then, as commercial NAS's became available without DNS built in, and
SIP(P) IPv6 didn't take off, I've tried a "service" style using net 10,
but it was hard to manage and explain (at least by our entry level
support), so I gave up.
Ideally, clients would use DHCP INFORM to find the local POP servers.
But none of the clients seem to bother.
Nowadays, we just give the customers that statically configure a pair
of central site servers (still on separate subnets), and configure the
NAS's with the local POP server using the bogus M$ PPP options.
That seems to cover our users pretty well.
If we could agree on a standard service (sometimes called anycast) set
of IP addresses, that might work....
All these techniques should be written up in a BCP.
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William Allen Simpson
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