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Re: IPv4 Anycast?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Evans)
Wed Apr 22 13:11:38 2009

In-Reply-To: <49EEC346.1000006@ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:09:33 +0100
From: Rob Evans <internetplumber@gmail.com>
To: Zhenkai Zhu <zhenkai@ucla.edu>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> 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..

...but inter-domain anycast is often achieved by using a single origin
AS, which is then transited through the 'provider' autonomous systems.
 In which case, you may be looking for the wrong thing.

Rob


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