[90376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to tell if something is anycasted?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Boothe)
Thu May 18 03:37:07 2006
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 00:36:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Boothe <peter@cs.uoregon.edu>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060517144541.GB11649@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > you can do
> > dig @f.root-servers.net hostname.bind chaos txt
> > And the response should include a line like
> > hostname.bind. 0 CH TXT "pao1b.f.root-servers.org"
On Wed, 17 May 2006 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> well Peter, ONE root server operator has that practice. Others have
> different practices regarding anycast.
DNS roots c, f, i, j, k, and m all do something like that, and last I
checked those were all the anycasted DNS roots. But more may have become
so since I last checked. It's true that they don't have to do it, but
it's a common enough convention for all the root DNS operators seem to
have agreed on it, and I've been told that DNS root ops is a highly
contentious subject, so any agreement at all is kind of a nice thing to
note.
Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?
This is, of course, somewhat off the subject of whether the original
provider in question does that - they may or may not, and the only way to
know is to test and find out. Or ask them.
-Peter
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