North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DNS anycast considered harmful (was: .ORG problems this evening)
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: : > There's an easy fix to that particular situation: Make the first (or first : > two) listed servers anycast, and the rest unicast. : : It would require a central management (or at least a central : oversight) of the root name servers and I do not believe there is one: : each root name server anycasts at will, without a leader saying ("A : and B will anycast, the others will stay unicast"). Well, that's something for the root server operators to think about and discuss amongst themselves. I know several of them are reading this list, and may be reading this thread. 8-) Still doesn't help .ORG, which is 100% anycast and thus has no DNS-based redundancy (see my experience elsewhere in this thread). -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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