The Answer will be 11 IP Addresses

Current DNS Architecture

North Zone NOIDA DNS IP : KOLKATA DNS IP

218.248.114.193 :218.248.112.193
CHANDIGARH DNS Switch
IP : Switch East Zone
218.248.114.129
Bangalore* Switch AGARTALA DNS IP :
Kolkata LSW-POP-
Noida LSW- 01
218.248.112.225
Pune* POP-01 Agartala
PE-02
Switch
Chennai Chandigarh
CDR-PE-01 MPLS
Chandigarh Cloud Chennai LSW-POP-
01
PE Routers
Bangalore CHENNAI DNS IP :
Noida Switch Mumbai
PE-03
LSW-BBMP-
01 218.248.112.65
Switch
Ernakulam
Mumbai Pune LSW-
NOC-02
MCR-01

MUMBAI DNS IP : BANGALORE DNS

Ernakulam 218.248.114.65 IP : 218.248.112.1
Switch
South Zone
Switch
Kolkata West Zone
PUNE DNS IP :
Agartala 218.248.114.1 Switch
ERNAKULAM
DNS IP :
218.248.112.97

BSNL has Cache DNS Servers at 9 locations and Authoritative DNS Servers at Bangalore & Pune
 Challenges in Current Architecture
1. Different Services of BSNL across the country had
respective regions DNS IPs like 218.248.x.y which was very
hard to remember .

2. If any DNS was unreachable from particular BNG/Node,

there was a need to configure alternate next near DNS in the
BNG/Node.

3. Subscribers used to have browsing issues till the issue

was resolved. Complexity of network configuration was present.
What lot of Field Engineers End Up Doing
Making Digital Life Simple

AnyCast DNS has been implemented in BSNL to achieve this