[181108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Jun 16 14:29:16 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 16 Jun 2015 18:28:44 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUmvdExmVAPF2fvcV-3=xJMAHW4MK=VRbETV8tytcww9w@mail.gmail.com>
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>Uh huh. The numbers are clear: 99.99% of the time it works. The other
>0.01% of the time you're screwed and had better pray the user is one
>of the ones you can afford to lose.
>
>Unicast TCP breaks too, but it has the virtue of being fixable 100% of the time.
I love the wry humor on the nanog list.
R's,
John
PS:
>If you read what Joe wrote, he doesn't currently have an AS number or
>employ BGP with his Internet providers. Extrapolate for his IPv4
>assignment situation and the /24 announcement barrier.
Assuming he has his own address space, why couldn't he just tell
them what the IPs are and ask them to announce it, like any other
customer does?
