Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > So agreeing for a second with Dean that indeed this behaviour would appear to be
> > prohibited or at least inconsistent with the RFCs, the fact is anycast is widely
> > deployed and is proven to be stable.
>
> "vixie-cast" is deployed on around 60 or so root DNS servers.  (don't know
> the exact number)  That covers a wide spread of root DNS servers, but I
> wouldn't call that 'widely deployed'.  I haven't been able to find any
> users of HTTP anycast/'vixie-cast' that Patrick Gilmore referred.  There

we do this 'http anycast' as part of another service... it seems to work
well enough.