[113846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 Anycast?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kris foster)
Wed Apr 22 03:28:25 2009
From: kris foster <kris.foster@gmail.com>
To: Zhenkai Zhu <zhenkai@ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <49EEC346.1000006@ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:28:09 -0700
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Zhenkai Zhu wrote:
> Ah, that's very possible. So I suppose the 90 prefixes with 3 origin
> ASes are due to the same reason..
>
> Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast
> prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are
> announced by more than 3 ASes..
There's lots of strangeness out there, for instance:
http://www.ep.net/policy.html
Bill lets anyone who has an IP assignment from an ep.net /24 announce
that /24. The term 'anycast' has some vagueness at the edges.
Kris
