[27773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Pugh)
Sun Mar 12 18:27:48 2000
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From: "Travis Pugh" <tdp@discombobulated.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:27:04 -0500
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If the goal is to direct traffic from a client to the closest server farm,
why not just build a box to do a BGP lookup and respond to a name lookup
with the IP of that farm? No pings or zone transfers necessary.
-travis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
>
> Dana Hudes wrote:
> >
> > Products like the Nortel Accelar 700 do layer 7 redirect.
> > http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/02/datasheets/3377.html
>
> you should read that datasheet more closely. When handling multiple
> sites, this product does something questionable, just as the F5 and
> other brands do. In the case of this Nortel product, it pings the
> original user's DNS server:
