RE: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

["Paul Ryland" <paul () transversal com>]

> > > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)?
> >
> > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc.
>
> - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP)
> not to perform zone transfer(TCP).

How-to with working configurations for Linux+Quagga:

<www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/2006-07/anycast-dns.odt>

Further information is found in RFC3258:

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3258>

Remember to disable PMTU discovery on your DNS servers if you are using this.


Paul