[dns-operations] Quick anycast primer

[brett watson]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Jim Reid wrote:

> And back again. This
> was because the ISP I used in those days didn't peer with Nominum in
> LINX. Their upstream provider did that at PAIX.
>
> I suppose it all depends on what's meant by "topologically closest".

indeed, that's a significant point about anycasting a service.  if  
the networks (ASNs) between the client and the resolver have poor  
peering, "topologically closest" may not mean what you had hoped it  
meant.

-b