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Re: Anycast 101
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:25:15 +0100
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> 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
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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).
Current thread:
- Re: Anycast 101, (continued)
- Re: Anycast 101 Michael . Dillon (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Marshall Eubanks (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 William Allen Simpson (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 William Allen Simpson (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Steve Gibbard (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Joe Abley (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Joe Shen (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 William Allen Simpson (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 William Allen Simpson (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 18)
- Re: Anycast 101 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Stephane Bortzmeyer (Dec 20)