[dns-operations] anycasting axfr

[Keith Mitchell]

On 04/19/2017 03:58 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

>> But there’s no equivalent analysis for DNS AXFRs. At least not yet AFAIK.

Seems to me an in-depth analysis would make a great OARC Workshop talk :-)

Keith


> While not an extensive analysis, I managed to gather some results last
> night. I performed 15893 root zone AXFRs from K-root from 245 RIPE Atlas
> anchors (distributed all over the world) for a period of about 210
> minutes. Not a single AXFR failed.
> 
> The fastest AXFR took 3.3s, while the slowest took 62.5s.