[dns-operations] Anycast DNS servers provided by AT&T?

Brent Jones brent at servuhome.net
Thu May 26 03:07:47 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:
> Anyone know if AT&T offers authoritative anycast DNS services, and
> under what product name?  And anyone have any experience with it?
>
> Want to evaluate between using them (an existing bandwidth provider of
> ours) and something like Amazon's Route 53 (which currently doesn't
> consume AXFR data I don't believe).
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
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Sorry, can't speak for ATT services, but Akamai runs anycast
authoritative DNS services using AXFR.

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/products/enhanced_dns.html

It's as reliable as other anycast providers, but can be on the expensive side.

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Brent Jones
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