Domain Name System protection

Mon Aug 16 14:11:13 UTC 2004

On 16 Aug 2004, at 01:18, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>> 2. How could we extend our server farm by adding new
>> servers while announcing the same IP addresses to our
>> customers?
>
> By doing exactly that.  Sharing one IP address across many servers is
> called "anycast" and is standard practice for DNS service provision.

See, for example:

   http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html
   http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.txt

   http://www.isc.org/pubs/pres/USENIX/2004/usenix-isc-dns-dist.pdf
   http://www.isc.org/pubs/pres/USENIX/2004/usenix-dns-dist-pres.pdf

Joe