[address-policy-wg] PI for Not-DNS Anycast.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg L. [mailto:bgp2 at linuxadmin.org] 

> To speed up DNS queries for their customers and clients. If I was running DNS hosting service I would prefer to have Australian 
visitors querying DNS boxes in Australia.
...

I can't get myself to agree with you on that, but I understand the problem.
If you actually have customers in Australia, TTL will take care of that for you. If you only have a few customers it cannot possibly be that important to have slightly lower latency for your domain at the first query. 
(FYI we are a medium size dns hosting company)


> If I was running DNS hosting service I would prefer to have Australian 
visitors querying DNS boxes in Australia. Clients from Germany querying 
anycast node in Germany. And if I was in Romania, all local clients to 
"hit" DNS anycast IP in Romania. 

Sure thing, but you probably mean the closest DNS box network wise/AS-hop/latency, not by country.

> Why should only ccTLD's 

They shouldn't.

> and some large LIR's 

Large LIRs probably have a decent network and can do what they want within their own network. Do you disagree that they should have that advantage? 



>..allowed to lower the service query latency for DNS traffic and 
sometimes cut the bandwidth bills?



Cheers,

j