You may want to participate in the anycast DNS cloud.
Configuration
Configuration requirements for all members of the anycast group are:
- maintain your own zones based on whois database (scripts included in monotone repository)
- allow recursion (including
.) - listen on a unicast IP too for testing/debugging reasons
- with bind, please use
minimal-responses yes;(goes intooptions/view)
It is really good to hang around in IRC to get things sorted out, if something doesn't work. Letting some people test your DNS behavior before joining the anycast-group is considered best practice - better safe than sorry.
- IP: 172.22.0.53
- Announciation Subnet: 172.22.0.53/32
Generating Zone Files
There are a few different scripts for generating zone files. They have been written in a few different languages.
| Script | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| rfc2317.rb | Ruby | |
| subnettr.py | Python 3 | |
| zonegen.bind.php | PHP | |
| zonegen.bind.sh | Bash | |
| zonegen.rb | Ruby | |
| zonegen.rdns.bind.sh | Bash | |
| zonegen.rdns.tinydns.sh | Bash | |
| zonegen.rev.bind.sh | Bash | |
| zonegen.smallblockrdns.tinydns.sh | Bash | |
| zonegen.tinydns.sh | Bash |
Persons providing anycast DNS
| Person | Region | AS | Unicast Address | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| siska | EU | 76103 | nixnodes.root.dn42 (172.22.177.8) | authoritative only |
| siska | EU | 76103 | ns1.nixnodes.dn42 (172.22.177.2) | caching |
| siska | EU | 76105 | ns2.nixnodes.dn42 (172.22.177.1) | caching |
| xuu | US | 64737 | xuu.root.dn42 (172.22.141.132) | |
| Nurtic-Vibe | EU | 4242420123 | ns1.grmml.dn42 (172.23.149.20) | |
| MWD | AU | 4242420002 | nsr1.mwd.dn42 (172.23.227.20) |
IPv6 DNS
IP: fd42:d42:d42:53::1/64
Persons providing anycast DNS for IPv6
| Person | Region | AS | Unicast Address | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xuu | US | 64737 | xuu.root.dn42 (fdea:a15a:77b9:d42::53) | |
| Nurtic-Vibe | EU | 4242420132 | ns1.grmml.dn42 (fd42:23:149:cccc::53) |