[181226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Hartig)
Fri Jun 19 07:44:32 2015
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From: James Hartig <fastest963@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:19:24 -0400
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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> You can achieve the above DNS trickery using various load balancers that
> other people in this thread have already mentioned. You can also install
> your own geomaps in your own nameservers and handle it yourself, or you can
> buy managed DNS service from various people that can do this kind of thing.
>
Just curious, how does DNS load balancing work if people are using
8.8.8.8/208.67.222.222 or basically any public resolvers that cache and
have a significant (relatively speaking) user-base? Is the actual percent
of requests so small that it doesn't matter?
--
James
