17 Dec
2004
17 Dec
'04
6:25 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote a message of 68 lines which said:
and then sees an anycast instance for all root servers over peering. If then something bad happens to the peering connection ... but even if 5 or 8 or 12 addresses become unreachable the timeouts get bad enough for users to notice.
We can turn this into a Good Practice: do not put an instance of every root name server on any given exchange point. Actually, this is only a theoretical issue, the current maximum seems to be only three (at the LINX in London).