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Re: TLD anycast clouds?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Wed Oct 5 14:56:15 2005

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:19:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
To: Gustavo Lozano <glozano@nic.mx>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051005093934.05cf0448@nic.mx>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Thanks!

Am I reading your CENTR presentation correctly as saying that you're 
announcing all four prefixes from all five locations?

-Steve

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Gustavo Lozano wrote:

> Steve,
>
> .mx NS servers (a,b,c,d.ns.mx) are anycasted.
>
> We announce dns servers prefixes from:
>
> Verio
> ISC
> Telmex
> Avantel
> Alestra ATT
> NYIIX trough ISC
>
> If you want more details, we gave a presentation about our dns infrastructure 
> in the last CENTR technical meeting.
> <http://www.centr.org/docs/2005/07/centr-tech14-lozano-dotmx.pdf>http://www.centr.org/docs/2005/07/centr-tech14-lozano-dotmx.pdf
>
> At 05:07 p.m. 04/10/2005 -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to come up with a list of all the top level domain DNS 
>> servers that are anycasted.  I already know about the anycast clouds run by 
>> PCH, Neustar, Verisign, DENIC, and UltraDNS, and .mx appears from 
>> traceroutes to be anycasted as well.
>> 
>> (I know about the anycasted root servers as well; they're out of scope for 
>> this question...)
>> 
>> Are there others that I'm missing?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Steve
>
>
> gus

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