Anycast 101

Mon Dec 20 12:39:07 UTC 2004

[Warning: I've never actually deployed an anycast DNS setup so you are
free to ignore my message.]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:28:43PM +0100,
 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com> wrote 
 a message of 109 lines which said:

> 1. There should always be non-anycast alternatives

I believe there is a strong consensus about that. And therefore a
strong agreement that ".org" is seriously wrong.

This is after all a good engineering practice: when you deploy
something new, do it carefully and not everywhere at the same time.