[83130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Fri Aug 5 07:51:04 2005
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:50:39 +0200
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508050434040.19646@twin.uoregon.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
> >With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an
> >option for DNS.
>
> oddly enough there's been some research on this subject. you might not in
> fact be able to conclude that if your routing is sufficiently stable.
Actually, if you don't allow/do zone transfers (which we don't), TCP/DNS
sessions are sufficiently short-lived to function properly.
Elmar.
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