DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?
Paul Jakma
paul at clubi.ie
Thu Sep 2 05:41:13 UTC 2004
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote:
> I thought it was standard best practice for availability, like for
> root name servers. I thought it was not a good "closest server"
> selection mechanism, as you'll be going to the closest server as
> determined by BGP - which may have little relationship to the
> server with lowest RTT. It'd be nice to see some metrics wither
> way....
For anycast within an organisation, it will be as determined by
the IGP, not BGP.
regards,
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