On Sun, 16 May 2004 19:01:17 -0400 Joe Abley <jabley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > reconvergence events to non-anycast servers). In addition, before the > frequency of the route churn became sufficiently high to cause a > problem, it would be well and truly damped to death by anybody running > with common BGP damping parameters and the inability to talk to the few > root servers which have anycast instances would be the last of your > problems. Not necessarily. Common dampening parameters exclude some 'golden networks' such as root name server networks from damping. RIPE 229 and Rob Thomas' Secure BGP template being perhaps the two most widely cited guides that suggest such a practice. John _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf