2 Jul
2004
2 Jul
'04
8:55 p.m.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
So the question is not so much "is 500ms towards the server bad", it's "can I build a single server (cluster) that will take all the load worldwide when the client software does bad things."
DNS traffic, surprisingly, is not very "fat". It is no HTTP nor SMTP. The engineering behind appropriately sizing a unicast fallback would be pretty trivial, especially compared to building a somewhat-robust anycast architecture. matto