Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?
Christopher L. Morrow
christopher.morrow at mci.com
Sat Apr 30 04:29:32 UTC 2005
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > So agreeing for a second with Dean that indeed this behaviour would appear to be
> > prohibited or at least inconsistent with the RFCs, the fact is anycast is widely
> > deployed and is proven to be stable.
>
> "vixie-cast" is deployed on around 60 or so root DNS servers. (don't know
> the exact number) That covers a wide spread of root DNS servers, but I
> wouldn't call that 'widely deployed'. I haven't been able to find any
> users of HTTP anycast/'vixie-cast' that Patrick Gilmore referred. There
we do this 'http anycast' as part of another service... it seems to work
well enough.
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