30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
7:50 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:36:48PM +0100, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote a message of 16 lines which said:
And BGP does not optimize for RTT, like some resolvers do, so too much anycast will slow things down a bit.
Isn't it a classical case of security/performance trade-off? After the attack on the root name servers on february 2007, most name servers operators are ready to worsen a bit the latency, in order to get more resilience. And, anyway, we are drifting. The issue is not whether name servers operators MUST use anycast-with-several-prefixes but if they CAN do it with the current policy (answer: no, because it is limited to one prefix).