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Tue May 29 16:23:03 UTC 2007

>> I understand the problems but I think there are clear cut cases where
>> /48's make sense- a large scale anycast DNS provider would seem to be a
>> good candidate for a /48 and I would hope it would get routed. Then again
>> that might be the only sensible reason...
>
> Don't give people an excuse to deagg their /32
RIPE may only give out /32's but ARIN gives out /48's so there wouldn't be 
any deaggregation in that case.

It's a question of cost versus benefit.

Does it make more sense to save a routing table entry- or reduce traffic 
by localizing DNS through anycasting?

-Don