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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Orthoefer)
Mon Jun 15 20:54:27 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: John Orthoefer <jco@direwolf.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2eglco72p.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:56:26 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>=20
> dns is udp


15 years ago when we set up 4.2.2.1, there was a fair amount of TCP =
based DNS.   We tried for a bit to support it via the anycast address, =
but ultimately we decided the support issues weren=E2=80=99t worth it.  =
The few customers that asked/required it were given non-anycast =
addresses to use for TCP based DNS.=20

I really think the OPs best answer is some DNS based load balancer, that =
can take metrics based on routing.

johno




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