Hello, {I'm copying this to the DNS wg list, since the protocol issues may probably be better discussed there. Hey, I *love* these [tags] :-(} [address allocation for anycast of DNS nameservers] Havard Eidnes <he@uninett.no> wrote:

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------------ snip ------------ "Operators providing DNS for a zone served by a number of name servers such that the total response size when including the list of nameservers for the zone is close to the UDP packet size limit may

Hm, it's not "the UDP packet size limit", it is "the packet size limit for DNS over UDP without the application of EDNS.0". I may not have followed things too closely, but it makes me sort of wonder why a push towards EDNS.0 is not being advocated instead of polluting the routing space to compensate for people who have not yet upgraded their software... Of course, people may still dream up configurations which

Isn't then the parent of those trying to do anycast suffering from those resolvers unaware of EDNS0? In other words: what could the applicant do? -Peter