[dns-operations] Anycast vs. unicast NS

Simon Munton Simon.Munton at communitydns.net
Mon Mar 21 13:29:17 UTC 2011


On 20/03/2011 01:00, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Anycast is great for reliability and resiliency, but it does not
> optimize the RTT.

Our experience is the same - see my previous post on this thread on 18th

One time we had queries from Russia ending up in Tokyo, going past our 
nodes in RIPE, London, Ashburn & LA - so not even the shortest route to 
Tokyo!

We fixed it, and now have nodes in Moscow & StP

is the only answer to this more & more & more nodes?



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