[80406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sat Apr 30 00:31:59 2005
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:29:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504292357290.27126-100000@localhost.localdomain>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > So agreeing for a second with Dean that indeed this behaviour would appear to be
> > prohibited or at least inconsistent with the RFCs, the fact is anycast is widely
> > deployed and is proven to be stable.
>
> "vixie-cast" is deployed on around 60 or so root DNS servers. (don't know
> the exact number) That covers a wide spread of root DNS servers, but I
> wouldn't call that 'widely deployed'. I haven't been able to find any
> users of HTTP anycast/'vixie-cast' that Patrick Gilmore referred. There
we do this 'http anycast' as part of another service... it seems to work
well enough.
