Operation of Anycast Services

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Best Practice
Pages: 24
Abstract: As the Internet has grown, and as systems and networked services within enterprises have become more pervasive, many services with high availability requirements have emerged. These requirements have increased the demands on the reliability of the infrastructure on which those services rely. Various techniques have been employed to increase the availability of services deployed on the Internet. This document presents commentary and recommendations for distribution of services using anycast. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Status Note: Best Current Practice
DOI: 10.17487/RFC4786
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4786
Author(s): Joe Abley
Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Keyword(s): Routing, Load Balancing

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Normative Reference(s)

IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1918 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1997 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2439 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2827 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3704 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4271 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4291 [Active*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

Austein, R., "DNS Name Server Identifier Option (NSID)", Work in Progress, June 2006. EXTERNAL
Abley, J., "Hierarchical Anycast for Global Service Distribution", March 2003, < http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2003-1.html >. EXTERNAL
Allman, M. and E. Blanton, "On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering", January 2000, < http:// www.icir.org/mallman/papers/tcp-reorder-ccr.ps >. EXTERNAL
Fomenkov, M., Keys, K., Moore, D., and k. claffy, "Longitudinal Study of Internet Traffic from 1999- 2003", January 2004, < http://www.caida.org/ outreach/papers/2003/nlanr/nlanr_overview.pdf >. EXTERNAL
"University of Oregon Route Views Project", < http://www.routeviews.org/ >. EXTERNAL
Abley, J., "A Software Approach to Distributing Requests for DNS Service using GNU Zebra, ISC BIND 9 and FreeBSD", March 2004, < http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html >. EXTERNAL
"RIPE NCC Routing Information Service (RIS)", < http://ris.ripe.net >. EXTERNAL
"RIPE NCC DNS Monitoring Services", < http://dnsmon.ripe.net/ >. EXTERNAL
McCreary, S. and k. claffy, "Trends in Wide Area IP Traffic Patterns: A View from Ames Internet Exchange", September 2000, < http://www.caida.org/ outreach/papers/2000/AIX0005/AIX0005.pdf >. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1546 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2267 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2311 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2821 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2845 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3207 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3765 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4033 [Active*]

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Referenced By

IETF RFC 6304 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7094 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7450 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7534 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7719 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7766 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8499 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 9499 [Active*]