Blog Edge Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries — Edge DNS and Anycast Sam Preston is an Engagement Manager at Akamai and a member of Akamai’s Edge DNS product line expert team. He and his family live in Boise, Idaho, with an unruly dog, Midnight, and plants they rarely remember to water. You can read all of his prior articles on Akamai DNS solutions. TL;DR \r\n \r\n IP Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology that allows IP addresses to be announced from multiple points on the internet \r\n With the proper implementation, Anycast can reduce DNS RTTs and offer innate DDoS protection \r\n Akamai's authoritative name service, Edge DNS, combines global scale with strategic network advertisements to optimize performance and reliability \r\n Domain owners can further promote a performant DNS posture by maximizing record TTLs and enabling Akamai's Zone Apex Mapping \r\n Third-party open source networks such as RIPE Atlas are helpful tools to monitor DNS Anycast performance without vendor and…