Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. On Aug 6, 2014, at 7:47, Toerless Eckert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, haven't been following this group for a long time, so > please excuse if answers to these questions have been discussed in before: > > a) What documents beside RFC3258 are describing any uses/procedures > for having DNS servers use an anycast address to receive and respond to > requests ?
Dunno, but something tells me a quick BING search would return millions of answers. > b) How common are deployments in which the information returned by different > anycast member DNS servers for the same query would be different, > aka: to "localize" lookup results, such as pointing to > local CDN caches or the like ? What would be the most well known examples > of such deployed instances ? Any IETF documents describing this ? Any > rules to follow ? Common? Ridiculously so, for at least 20 years. Well known examples? CDNs, as you already mentioned. E.g. LLNW. > c) Any example in which the DNS servers utilizing a single shared > IP address (anycast address) are run by different operators ? Any > documents describing this ? (RFC3258 seems to focus on single operator > anycast group of DNS servers. How about the root servers? -- TTFN, patrick _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
