[68006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Fri Feb 27 08:43:07 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:39:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFDFDE1094.9857B396-ON80256E47.00395ECA-80256E47.003A6288@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> In Canada and the USA they would dial 911
> In the UK they would dial 999
> In Europe they would dial 112 or possibly one of the various
> legacy national numbers for emergency service.
> And in Australia they would dial 000.
>
> Do you route all these calls to Britain? Do you use some sort of
> geographical locator database for IP addresses to route the call?
> Do you route the call based on the actual number dialed, i.e. all
> 000 calls go to Australia?
Sounds like a perfect job for anycast.
I dont know how VoIP URIs work, but if there's DNS mapping involved
surely you can set up the appropriate records for _all_ the various
types of emergency number formats to map to the same anycast address.
> --Michael Dillon
regards,
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