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You would need to rent AnyCast IP to do that. Maybe you want to talk to @gbshouse and see if they rent you the IP
dns4.pro can resell the anycast IP to you.
You can get your own dedicated anycast IP pair for 10€/month
Do you have any documentation on how your anycasted IP service works? Do the IPs route to your location and tunnel/TCP proxy to our hosts? Sounds interesting, but more info would be great.
@amhoab - the DNS anycast IP are not proxied or tunneled, you can just use them with our DNS service. If you want your DNS service look unique you can combine them with vanity NS. Regular anycast IP will be available from 1st of March but the pricing is not know yet.
Call me dense but what exactly is Anycast DNS and what are it's advantages?
Ah I see. So generally public DNS servers that provide a geolocated service (closest to requester) are Anycast DNS servers like the above mentioned Google DNS. Makes sense, thanks!
No. The anycast serves the first best (not always closest) server from network point of view.
It takes the shortest AS path, so you were right in a way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast explains it pretty well.
Nope. Imagine the scenario that you have single homed PoP in Africa (with X upstream provider) and you have client in Canada which use ISP Y which is multi homed and have direct peering with provider X. The shortest AS-PATH will be Y-X but it will have very large response times and won't be closest one from geographical point of view. Anycast is very tricky especially when you have large network and work with multiple providers. In the scenario described you need to prepend the AS-PATH so it won't be the shortest one anymore but only for this specific ISP.
My bad, I thought that's what you were talking about (the anycast IPs, not DNS-only IPs). Do you have any details available on the anycast-as-a-service solution?
@amhoab - not yet but soon