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anycast DNS (Re: Internet vulnerabilities)

  • From: E.B. Dreger
  • Date: Fri Jul 05 10:15:01 2002

ME> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:05:44 -0400
ME> From: Marshall Eubanks


ME> - it's static - no failover. If AS 701 and AS 1239 are both
ME> announcing a route to foo, and your preferred route is
ME> "through" AS701, and the AS701 foo goes down, then you do not
ME> automatically switch over to the AS1239 foo, even if you
ME> could reach it.

???


ME> - there is no way to have multiple anycast addresses within
ME>   an AS

???


ME> - load balancing is tough

Just as tough as load-balancing over different upstreams in a
multihomed network.  That's all anycast really is: multihoming
with the added twist of using multiple, separate systems instead
of one.

Each system has a unique, non-anycast IP address bound as the
primary IP, allowing communication between the disjoint parts.
Secondary IP(s) live(s) in the anycast range, and is/are routed
appropriately.

You can bind the appropriate 192.175.48/24 addresses to your NSen
and run an authoritative copy of the root TLD.  IIRC, Paul even
mentioned doing this a few weeks ago... I believe the thread was
on dynamic DNS updates and Win2000's broken implementation.

Think of anycast as DDoS in reverse:  Instead of distributed
traffic sources, one has distributed traffic sinks.  Hence the
attractiveness in surviving DDos attacks.


Eddy
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