[73224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Summary with further Question: Domain Name System protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Aug 17 00:33:31 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:31:27 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <8F94A04A-F004-11D8-9C72-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >>4. Anycast is the most scalable and standard solution
> >>for dispersed DNS server farm, while layer-4 switch
> >>could deal could do with centralized server farm;
> >
> > its not a standard.
>
> <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1546.txt>, aka _Host Anycasting
> Service_
>
> Looks pretty standard to me.
Nope. Its -INFORMATIONAL- e.g. Not a Standard.
> Not to mention being used in production on several major networks for
> over half a decade (read: "forever") on the Internet is pretty well
> tested technology.
true enough. but not "the most scaleable and standard solution"
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
> P.S. That would be "it's". =)
