Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Steve Francis wrote:

I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser?

http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2002/Distance/ this paper would be somewhat on-topic, as you can infer the performance characteristics that anycast would have. no direct comparisons made to akamai,etc but maybe you can infer those as well. -dre