[67743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast and windows servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Feb 19 08:41:04 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402182227340.6604@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:40:20 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 18 Feb 2004, at 22:43, Sean Donelan wrote:
> How well does Anycast work with Windows 2000 or XP servers? Is the
> Microsoft OSPF implementation good enough to use or do people port
> another
> routing implementation?
Does the capitalisation of Anycast mean it has been productised, now?
:-)
In my head, anycast is unicast without globally-unique addresses. Since
nobody ever asks "does unicast work with Windows?" I am guessing you
mean something different by "Anycast" than I do by "anycast".
What do you mean?
You can do the kind of Internet-wide service distribution that we do
with F [1] with no unusual requirements on the host. (ISC in fact
deploys clusters of hosts in each node rather than a single host, and
the way we build the clusters involves OSPF on the hosts, but that's
orthogonal to the wide-area distribution strategy.)
Joe
[1] ISC-TN-2003-1, http://www.isc.org/tn/
