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Re: /8 end user assignment?

  • From: abuse
  • Date: Fri Aug 05 07:54:24 2005
  • Newsgroups: newsgate.nanog

Sabri Berisha <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no
> longer an option for DNS.

Erm, bollocks.

Just because a few nameservers are anycasted doesn't mean that the
vast majority of non-anycasted servers may not use TCP.

Optimising the common case of simple lookups so they fit in a UDP
request makes good sense, but an overzealous determination to stamp
out TCP DNS is not helpful, since it is rather useful under certain
circumstances.

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