Distributing DNS load via DHCP

[James Cape]

Paul,

I did a writeup of one method which doesn't require running routing
protocols on the host at http://ignore-your.tv/tag/anycast/

Thanks,

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> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:42:09 -0800
> From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org>
> To: Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
> Subject: Re: Distributing DNS load via DHCP
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> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:24:04AM -0800, Carlos Vicente wrote:
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>> I haven't tried this particular trick, but we were considering a
>> similar option at uoregon last year, and ended up deploying anycast
>> instead, which we're very happy with so far.
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>> I'd be happy to share the implementation details if you're interested.
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> We were considering anycast dns recently. I wasn't sure how cleanly it
> would integrate into our environment, particularly how to inject/remove
> the route for a given server dependent on whether or not it was up,
> intentionally down, or failed. I would definitely be interested to hear
> how you approached it.
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