Some Questions on BIND and IPv4 Anycast
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Mar 9 15:09:26 UTC 2007
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:27:55PM +0800,
Archimedes S. Gaviola <agaviola at infoweapons.com> wrote
a message of 19 lines which said:
> How does BIND handles anycast address?
It does not. It is entirely handled outside BIND, in the routers.
> How to determine that certain IPv4 address is an anycast?
You cannot. Anycast addresses are ordinary addresses.
> Does this type of address being advertised by routers on the
> Internet?
Yes.
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html
http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2003-1.html
Or RFC 4786
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