-----Original Message----- From: Greg L. [mailto:bgp2@linuxadmin.org]
To speed up DNS queries for their customers and clients. If I was running DNS hosting service I would prefer to have Australian visitors querying DNS boxes in Australia. ...
I can't get myself to agree with you on that, but I understand the problem. If you actually have customers in Australia, TTL will take care of that for you. If you only have a few customers it cannot possibly be that important to have slightly lower latency for your domain at the first query. (FYI we are a medium size dns hosting company)
If I was running DNS hosting service I would prefer to have Australian visitors querying DNS boxes in Australia. Clients from Germany querying anycast node in Germany. And if I was in Romania, all local clients to "hit" DNS anycast IP in Romania.
Sure thing, but you probably mean the closest DNS box network wise/AS-hop/latency, not by country.
Why should only ccTLD's
They shouldn't.
and some large LIR's
Large LIRs probably have a decent network and can do what they want within their own network. Do you disagree that they should have that advantage?
..allowed to lower the service query latency for DNS traffic and sometimes cut the bandwidth bills?
Cheers, j