DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

Wed Sep 1 21:31:53 UTC 2004

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Steve Francis wrote:
> I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does 
> anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as 
> a kludgey traffic optimiser?

http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2002/Distance/

this paper would be somewhat on-topic, as you can infer the performance
characteristics that anycast would have.  no direct comparisons made to
akamai,etc but maybe you can infer those as well.

-dre