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Re: ultradns reachability

  • From: Matt Ghali
  • Date: Fri Jul 02 20:57:17 2004 
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> So the question is not so much "is 500ms towards the server
> bad", it's "can I build a single server (cluster) that will take
> all the load worldwide when the client software does bad things."

DNS traffic, surprisingly, is not very "fat". It is no HTTP nor SMTP.

The engineering behind appropriately sizing a unicast fallback would
be pretty trivial, especially compared to building a somewhat-robust
anycast architecture.

matto