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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:01:41 +0200
Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 1. some DNS server is anycast (TLD servers are worse than roots because 
>  the root zone is so small)

I do not understand this praticular point (the "are worse because 
of size" that is)

The duration and size of the transaction are, except for AXFR queries,
independend on the size of the zone. Can you ellaborate?


> A good way to do this would be having an "anycast" or "don't load
> balance" community in BGP, or publication of a list of ASes and/or
> prefixes that shouldn't be load balanced because the destinations
> are anycast.

Sounds like a very sensible approach.


-- Olaf

---------------------------------| Olaf M. Kolkman
---------------------------------| RIPE NCC

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