DNS server on multisite environment?

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:41 AM -0500 2005-08-19, Tim Peiffer wrote:

>  Can I suggest that you research IP Anycast - RFC 1545 and 2101..  Use
>  exactly the same public IP address and have the routing table (closest
>  hop count wins) decide the best path to your public IP address.  The
>  root nameservers have been doing this for years to deliver 'N' servers
>  in 'N' countries all with the same name and address.

	Not all the root nameservers do this.  But ISC has some pretty 
detailed information on how they do this for f.root-servers.net 
within their "Tech Note" section at 
<http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/pubs/tn/>, and you want to pay 
particular attention to 
<http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2004-1.txt> 
and 
<http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/pubs/tn/index.pl?tn=isc-tn-2003-1.html>.

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