/8 end user assignment?

Christopher L. Morrow christopher.morrow at mci.com
Sat Aug 6 18:25:18 UTC 2005



On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 abuse at cabal.org.uk wrote:

>
> Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no
> > longer an option for DNS.
>
> Erm, bollocks.
>
> Just because a few nameservers are anycasted doesn't mean that the
> vast majority of non-anycasted servers may not use TCP.
>
> Optimising the common case of simple lookups so they fit in a UDP
> request makes good sense, but an overzealous determination to stamp
> out TCP DNS is not helpful, since it is rather useful under certain
> circumstances.

*cough* worldnic dns servers *cough*

it's part of the rfc, make sure it works please.



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