[27826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bender)
Wed Mar 15 09:55:11 2000
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:53:58 -0500
From: Andrew Bender <abender@tns-inc.com>
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Marc Slemko wrote:
> This will normally be a caching nameserver that may or may
> not be the same as the nameservers for the domain. In theory,
> it should be "close" to the client network wise for other
> reasons. Is it always? No. But it is a more reasonable
> metric.
Have any substantive empirical studies been perfromed that
validate this assumption? The degree to which it is true
seems to be the gating factor for the effectiveness of this
method...
Andrew Bender
tns-inc.com
