[139383] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternatives to GSLB ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Apr 5 17:55:30 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikt8p2rDFovxvtv8-cnktNh6U9-gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:54:43 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:12 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> I've seen that with clients. It seems like there's a promised anycast
> land, out where Akamai is (where you really do have "local" nearly
> everywhere globally, so even strange routing foo doesn't mismatch the
> path too badly).
No Akamai traffic is directed via anycast.
Some of the name server IP addresses are anycasted, but that is for =
redundancy / capacity / name resolution performance, not to direct end =
users to web servers.
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TTFN,
patrick
