On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote: > So the question is not so much "is 500ms towards the server > bad", it's "can I build a single server (cluster) that will take > all the load worldwide when the client software does bad things."
DNS traffic, surprisingly, is not very "fat". It is no HTTP nor SMTP. The engineering behind appropriately sizing a unicast fallback would be pretty trivial, especially compared to building a somewhat-robust anycast architecture. matto