On Thursday, September 29, 2011 07:34:55 am Masataka Ohta wrote: > The problem is that the report is unreliable. As your assumption is: > > The purpose I see in this proposal, that cannot be handled by > > the IP layer, is to tell me which anycast instance is seen > > by some recursive name server. > > even you can't diagnose the problem, if what is broken is not > your server but the recursive name server used by someone who > reported the problem and you can't have access to the recursive > name server.
that happens sometimes. however, i often end up in an email conversation with a problem reporter, and i often ask them to run certain "dig" commands. so, even if i can't reach a recursive server, a feature like this can still help me. > > there may also be some network mapping and measurement benefits > > to this proposal. > > May or may not be. there are ~16M open recursive name servers right now. so, i say, "may". _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
