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anycast

A technique for updating routing tables in IPv6, the next generation of IP addressing. Anycast sends a message to the nearest router within a group. That router in turn sends it to its nearest router. Starting in 2003, additional root servers on the Internet were replicated using the Anycast method. See IPv6 and root server.



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Security - Quality of Service - Multicast and Anycast - Deploying IPv6 in IPv4 Dominant Networks - Deploying IPv6 Dominant Networks with IPv4 Support - Migrating with Application Level Gateways - Transport Protocols.
IPv6 also supports large hierarchical and anycast addresses.
The main idea of the Anycast scheme is to provide a fault tolerant infrastructure for the DNS service of .
 
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