[as112-ops] Optimizing AS112 networking? was How many public AS112 nodes? 72, maybe

[Joe Abley]

On 2012-04-11, at 08:26, Shane Kerr wrote:

> However, perhaps we could persuade IANA to delegate this to a set of 4
> or 5 addresses in different subnets, and then each AS112 operator could
> pick one of these to advertise. It could in principle decrease the
> amount of cross-oceanic traffic, because as you noted DNS will
> automatically try to get to the server that responds fastest.

For a project with no central administration, this just suggests to me that all the nameservers will be less available than they would be if we kept them together, and some would be poorly available most of the time.

Given that this is junk traffic, I think it is more sane to continue with a single prefix for each of v4 and v6.


Joe