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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Anycast 101
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]> wrote a message of 68 lines which said: > and then sees an anycast instance for all root servers over > peering. If then something bad happens to the peering connection ... > but even if 5 or 8 or 12 addresses become unreachable the timeouts > get bad enough for users to notice. We can turn this into a Good Practice: do not put an instance of every root name server on any given exchange point. Actually, this is only a theoretical issue, the current maximum seems to be only three (at the LINX in London).
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