Hi, On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:09:04AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
From my observation on this discussion there seem to be no other parties beside TLD operators that are currently so much interested in setting up anycast services. At least, nobody said so on this list. Some DNSBL operators are definitely interested.
DNS Black Lists are part of the crtitical email infrastructure.
They are, but they are not even using the amount of redundancy available by DNS today (read: "as many name servers as fit into a minimum sized UDP packet full of glue"). So there is hardly an argument for doing anycast.
Someday a bogon routeserver service like this one: http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html might want to use anycast.
The route servers use TCP, which will not work over anycast (in the general case - consider load balancing, every other packet going to a different destination machine. No problem for UDP, big problem for TCP) Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57882 (57753) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299