AFNIC has recently deployed its own anycast cloud to increase the robustness of the .fr domain and its quality of service in domain name resolution.
AFNIC has been using the anycast technology for many years now, freeing it from geographical limitations in the location of its critical servers. As geographical coverage widens, the anycast technology improves the DNS service quality with ever shorter response times and greater reliability:more servers mean better resistance to saturation attacks.
While maintaining a worldwide coverage with almost 60 nodes, AFNIC has set up new DNS servers at several locations in France and around Europe, notably in Lyon which is ideally located from the networking point of view, being close to both Switzerland and Italy.
So since 11.00 am CET on December 4th, 2009, AFNIC has been running an anycast cloud on the Lyon’s IXP infrastructures of Rézopole/Lyonix.
The deployment up of this new anycast cloud run entirely by AFNIC fulfills a double objective: firstly, mastering the technology, in order to open new sites in addition to those already being managed by its providers; and secondly, increasing the density of DNS infrastructures as close as possible to the French users.
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