Re: [DNSOP] Anycast and DNS questions

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Tue, 02 September 2014 07:47 UTC

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Antoin Verschuren wrote:

> Question is: Why do you anycast in the first place.
> I think for DNS, primary reason is redundancy and resilience, which is
> why spreading capacity is the primary goal.

Then, your reason has little to do with anycast.

See, for example, draft-ietf-dnsop-ohta-shared-root-server...

						Masataka Ohta