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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Jun 18 19:51:27 2015

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:51:15 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2015/06/19 4:43, Jonas Björk wrote:
> While risking being slightly off topic: Does anyone use anycast dhcp servers?
> Have you run into any problems considering synching the leases?

In general, multiple anycast servers on a link, which is the anycast
model of IPv6, is a bad idea, because broadcast just works.

Of course, IPv6 inhibition of broadcast is another bad idea.

							Masataka Ohta


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