/8 end user assignment?

Fri Aug 5 16:20:13 UTC 2005

--On August 5, 2005 12:50:08 PM +0200 Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> 
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I'm not sure how much room additional AAAA records take up, but I
>> think it's a little under 30 bytes. At this rate, there is no way
>> you're going to run out of 512 bytes with less than 10 AAAA records.
>> Then there is EDNS0, and failing that, TCP.
>
> With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an
> option for DNS.

Most of us aren't using anycast DNS....for those that are, they know the 
limitations and problems they face.

Though, realistically, for most people I'd bet it's a non-issue anyway. 
Most replies, including glue/additionals are probably far less than the 
links packet size in most places.  There are exceptions.  There are always 
exceptions. :)