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Re: What DNS Is Not

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Nov 8 20:59:04 2009

From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0911091424210.22777@green.darkmere.gen.nz>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:58:16 +0900
To: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On 2009-11-09, at 10:35, Simon Lyall wrote:

> And my first question would be what would the load on the global  
> routing system if a couple of thousand (say) extra sites started  
> using anycast for their content?

Are you asking what the impact would be of a couple of thousand extra  
routes in the current full table of ~250,000? That sounds like noise  
to me (the number, not your question :-)


Joe



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