Re: DNS-based RR mechanisms

At 02:40 PM 4/10/2002 -0400, Abdullah Rayhan wrote:
>The discussion of Anycast is theoretical and I doubt if
>there is any DNS implementation that makes use of it.
>It is not even documented and we dont know how it
>works. It is better if is dropped from the draft.

FYI, I know of two major ISPs that both use Anycast to direct clients to
local DNS servers. It's not theoretical at all... it's well-known and it
works. It can be as simple as putting GateD on a bunch of machines running
bind.

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