[73175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Name System protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Aug 16 10:14:12 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0408152213060.12599-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Cc: Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:11:13 -0400
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 16 Aug 2004, at 01:18, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> 2. How could we extend our server farm by adding new
>> servers while announcing the same IP addresses to our
>> customers?
>
> By doing exactly that. Sharing one IP address across many servers is
> called "anycast" and is standard practice for DNS service provision.
See, for example:
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.txt
http://www.isc.org/pubs/pres/USENIX/2004/usenix-isc-dns-dist.pdf
http://www.isc.org/pubs/pres/USENIX/2004/usenix-dns-dist-pres.pdf
Joe
