[29673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bad idea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jul 5 12:07:16 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: "Devin P. Anderson" <devin@stargate.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:57:48 -0700
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maybe what folk here are missing is that many of the largest providers use
the "v4 anycast" hack (what the original question described) today, and
very successfully.
and, for the pedants and seemingly illiterate, what the questioner was
suggesting was an rfc1930 violation, the same prefix from more than one
origin as, not a partitioned as. 1930 was a good year, but not a great
year, i.e. compliance is not enforced as far as i am aware.
i believe that his hack will work, and work well.
and moving this kind of thing to the client, when the alternative is making
the distributed internet work for you, is product marketing promoted by
folk with something to sell.
and moving it to dns servers is a disfunctional disease of the bad idea
fairy.
randy
