> Is there situation that multiple root servers installed behine > multiple routers within one AS? yes. that situation exists inside cogent, with c-root. > If router-P enables PPLB, would there be some problem with TCP based > DNS requests? your diagram didn't make sense to me so i'll answer without reference to "router-p". if cogent's backbone engineering staff enabled PPLB on the wrong set of output interfaces, all kinds of things would break, including tcp sessions to c-root. fortunately, their backbone engineers are smart enough to know how to use (or not use) the tools available to them. the rootops were pretty careful when we turned on anycast. presumably the other anycast services around the net, like woody's and rodney's, were also deployed very carefully. careful as in getting multiple experts in a room to argue out the fine points. careful as in monitoring the results and making sure there weren't any unreported (or reported) failures. anycast has worked very well. both inter-AS and intra-AS. the fact that a not-clueful-enough engineer *could* build a non-working topology using anycast and PPLB as ingredients, does not mean that anycast or PPLB are bad. it means you have to be clueful-enough before you use either tool. (and remember kids, all power tools can kill.) one hopes that an actual policy maker would find an actual expert for advice. such an expert would be expected to have read http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120newft/120limit/120s/120s21/pplb.htm where it says Restrictions Out-of-Sequence Packets Using per-packet load balancing to share the traffic load across available paths to a given destination can cause out-of-sequence packets in a particular data flow. This can result in unsatisfactory data transmission for video and voice streaming. and they would know that PPLB is basically a link bundling technology used when all members of the PPLB group start and end in the same router-pair; in other words it could mostly turn a pair of OC3c's into an "OC6" but it would be unsafe in any broader context, even when anycast is not in use. now, could y'all please stop feeding the trolls? _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf