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Re: IPv4 Anycast?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhenkai Zhu)
Wed Apr 22 15:56:59 2009

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:56:00 -0700
From: Zhenkai Zhu <zhenkai@ucla.edu>
To: Rob Evans <internetplumber@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9a8fa98b0904221009t4b290fe7jaa3179600c50c369@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Rob Evans wrote:
>> 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.
>   
Hi Rob,
    Do you mean multihoming here?

Zhenkai

>  In which case, you may be looking for the wrong thing.
>
> Rob
>
>   



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