Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

[Paul Jakma <paul () clubi ie>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote:

> I thought it was standard best practice for availability, like for 
> root name servers.  I thought it was not a good "closest server" 
> selection mechanism, as you'll be going to the closest server as 
> determined by BGP - which may have little relationship to the 
> server with lowest RTT. It'd be nice to see some metrics wither 
> way....

For anycast within an organisation, it will be as determined by 
the IGP, not BGP.

regards,
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