Usage of BIND in TLDs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cnkj14$n56$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:44:22AM +0000,
>  Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET> wrote 
>  a message of 19 lines which said:
> 
> > So a breakdown by number of distinct server IP addresses (not server 
> > names), in addition to the one by number of TLDs, might be a good idea.
> 
> Ask and Thou Shalt receive. But there is little difference between
> server names and IP addresses, very few TLD name servers have several
> addresses for a name, or the opposite (this is mostly for TLD which
> compress their set of NS).

Don't some of the root and/or TLD servers make use of anycast, so one IP 
corresponds to multiple servers?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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