Anycast DNS - Overview

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Anycast DNS

This is the first article in series on the topic of deploying Anycast DNS.

The purpose of this series of articles is to share some ideas, recipes, and information on how to deploy Anycast in your environment.  The first thing we need to do is explain what Anycast is.  Anycast is the use of routing and addressing policies to affect the most efficient path between a single source and several geographically dispersed targets that "listen" to a service within a receiver group.  In Anycast, the same IP address space is used to address each of the listening targets (DNS servers in our case)....

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