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Re: Alternatives to GSLB ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Apr 5 18:14:06 2011
In-Reply-To: <BE70DEBB-ED82-47C1-A485-9F518FA70616@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:13:12 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrot=
e:
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:12 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>
>> I've seen that with clients. =A0It 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 redun=
dancy / capacity / name resolution performance, not to direct end users to =
web servers.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. It was suggested in the dark past
that Akamai could or should do that; they didn't.
It was tangental to the point I was making and I simplified wrongly.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
