[181208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Jonas_Bj=C3=B6rk?=)
Thu Jun 18 17:25:33 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: =?utf-8?Q?Jonas_Bj=C3=B6rk?= <mr.jonas.bjork@me.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:25:14 +0200
In-reply-to: <CAPkb-7ADkL9HP01OeUN-jo8THTcjw4-2pwtSovFRVQFnaXnXnw@mail.gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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> Because clients will switch to unicast for renewal. Also clients will stay
> with the current server forever, so you might have a bad distribution of
> load between the servers. If one server was down everyone will switch to
> the other and never go back until forced.
Why wouldn't they go back to the nearest server when it comes back online?
> Regards
> Baldur
