Summary: On the Use of Anycast in
DNS
Sandeep Sarat
Johns Hopkins University
Vasileios Pappas
UCLA
Andreas Terzis
Johns Hopkins University
http://hinrg.cs.jhu.edu/
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Background
· What is Anycast?
­ Client transparent mechanism to route
packet to one of multiple servers in anycast
group
­ Implemented via announcements of the
same address prefix from multiple origins
(IGP+EGP)
­ Deployed in top-level DNS nameservers
· Reduction in query latency

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

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