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[dns-wg] New on RIPE Labs: Researching F-root Anycast Placement Using RIPE Atlas

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Shane Kerr shane at time-travellers.org
Wed Oct 14 16:28:04 CEST 2015

Randy,

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:20:57 +0200
Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> from a discussion in montréal
> 
> q: why do we anycast dns?
> a: for attack resistance, latency is a secondary effect
> 
> q: what are the majority of queries?
> a: trash
> 
> q: where should we place instances?
> a: near folk who need queries answered.  bzzzt!  no!
> a: near the sources of the rubbish so it can be absorbed quickly

Interesting point. This suggests a better (new?) metric is needed. I'm
not exactly sure what this would be though. :)

Cheers,

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Shane

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