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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
From: "Joe Abley" <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:42:09 -0400
On 19 Jun 2015, at 8:12, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:19 AM, James Hartig <fastest963 () gmail com> wrote:Just curious, how does DNS load balancing work if people are using8.8.8.8/208.67.222.222 or basically any public resolvers that cache and
If the client that performs the upstream query within the 8.8.8.8/whatever infrastructure is close to you for some meaningful interpretation of "close" then you still get an answer that is (effectively) localised for you.
If the resolver infrastructure is sufficiently far that what is good for it is not good for you, then the deployed (if not quite standardised) answer is edns-client-subnet: the resolver infrastructure you're using embeds your client address in its upstream query. The authority servers can then localise a response (and scope it) as being suitable for you, not the resolver in general.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-subnet-02There are privacy concerns, here. But we might posit that you've already in the business of trading privacy for convenience if you're using a public resolver.
don't know exactly, but you might get some interesting clues from the f-root or as112 designs, eh?
Root servers and AS112 servers don't steer clients towards content according to where they are. They give consistent answers for all queries, regardless of where they came from.
Joe
Current thread:
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?, (continued)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Bill Woodcock (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Mark Andrews (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? John Levine (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Masataka Ohta (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Jon Lewis (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? James Hartig (Jun 19)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Christopher Morrow (Jun 19)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Abley (Jun 19)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Christopher Morrow (Jun 19)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Rob Seastrom (Jun 20)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Hamelin (Jun 15)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Rafael Possamai (Jun 15)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Hamelin (Jun 15)