[73722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Gironda)
Wed Sep 1 17:29:54 2004
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:31:53 -0700
From: Andre Gironda <andre@operations.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Steve Francis <sfrancis@fastclick.com>
In-Reply-To: <41360F98.20808@fastclick.com>; from sfrancis@fastclick.com on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:06:16AM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Steve Francis wrote:
> I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does
> anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as
> a kludgey traffic optimiser?
http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2002/Distance/
this paper would be somewhat on-topic, as you can infer the performance
characteristics that anycast would have. no direct comparisons made to
akamai,etc but maybe you can infer those as well.
-dre
