[49597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Jul 5 13:38:35 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:38:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3D25C93E.4040109@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Or, are you saying that an anycast host has to be a router running BGP ?
No, typically they run OSPF.
> So if it goes down, so would the service and the announcements?
Correct. If a device wants to witdraw itself from a service pool, it
withdraws the host route associated with that service.
> This works for DNS, but not for the things I would like to anycast.
Mmm, like what? This is all ancient history at this point... It seems
unlikely that anyone would discover something that didn't work at this
late date.
-Bill
