[113873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 Anycast?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Apr 22 16:58:51 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49EF7FA8.9010609@brightok.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:58:46 -0400
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On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> Zhenkai Zhu wrote:
>> I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that
>> the anycasted address space can be announced in different places
>> yet with the same origin AS?
>
> Yes, and it is commonly done.
I was under the impression anycast services with homogeneous origin AS
was far more common than the heterogeneous. Almost all the instances
I know of use homogeneous origin AS.
I'd be interested in statistics either way.
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TTFN,
patrick
