RE: updating GSE for the new millennium

["Tony Li" <Tony.Li@procket.com>]

Root name servers are also a service deserving of anycast
addresses.

Tony


|    Joe is absolutely on the right path.
|    
|    > contributed the following to RFC 1958:
|    >
|    >    3.11 Circular dependencies must be avoided.
|    >
|    >       For example, routing must not depend on look-ups 
|    in the Domain
|    >       Name System (DNS), since the updating of DNS 
|    servers depends on
|    >       successful routing
|    
|    And if you change this to:
|    
|    >       For example, core default free routing must not 
|    depend on look-ups in
|    >       the Domain Name System (DNS), since the updating 
|    of DNS servers depends
|    >       on successful defaul free routing
|    
|    Long ago there was a discussion about whether or not DNS 
|    servers were 
|    things that needed to be multihomed - the answer was that 
|    they were not.
|    
|    One does far better with multiple DNS servers on unique PA 
|    addresses.
|    DNS already deals with failover, etc...
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