DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

Wed Sep 1 23:36:07 UTC 2004

> So there is no need to anycast the DNS servers and rely on BGP topology for 
> selection.
> Instead use bind's behaviour so that each resolving nameserver will be 
> querying the authoritative nameserver that responds the fastest.

However, note that only BIND does this.  djbdns always selects
nameservers randomly and the Windows selection algorithm is somewhat
of a mystery.  See http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/wessels.html

Duane W.