[181235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Jun 19 09:49:15 2015
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:46:04 +0200
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> James Hartig <fastest963@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just curious, how does DNS load balancing work if people are using
>> 8.8.8.8/208.67.222.222 or basically any public resolvers that cache and
>> have a significant (relatively speaking) user-base?
>
> http://www.afasterinternet.com/ietfdraft.htm
that doesn't address how packets get to the address or back though,
right? that's about the content in the packet.