TLD anycast clouds?

Wed Oct 5 14:28:29 UTC 2005

On 5-Oct-2005, at 02:54, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> I'm pretty sure ISC runs anycasted dns servers too and they  
> run .museum TLD and serve as secondary for one or two other TLDs.

Service for the nameservers NS-EXT.VIX.COM and NS-EXT.ISC.ORG are  
provided by an anycast cluster along the lines described in:

   http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2004-1.txt
   http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/abley.cluster.html

So, service is distributed over multiple hosts using anycast, but the  
scope of the anycast is limited geographically to a single location  
in a single AS.

Joe