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Re: Anycast 101

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Fri Dec 31 23:18:23 2004

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:17:39 -0800 (PST)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041221162130.A629413E12@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

  i've also been thinking that AXFR's known incoherency could be reduced by
  using some kind of in-band embargo that would bring a new zone version
  online synchronously on servers supporting this feature and configured to
  enable it for a particular zone.
  
Or a different storage abstraction for your zone data. Flat text zone 
files are so 90's. How about an rdbms backend on each nameserver, with 
updates delivered 'reliably' by a message queue service. It sounds a 
lot easier than a bunch of protocol additions.  

matt ghali

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