[76664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Dec 20 07:39:39 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:39:07 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B0011CC0-5282-11D9-B673-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
[Warning: I've never actually deployed an anycast DNS setup so you are
free to ignore my message.]
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:28:43PM +0100,
Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote
a message of 109 lines which said:
> 1. There should always be non-anycast alternatives
I believe there is a strong consensus about that. And therefore a
strong agreement that ".org" is seriously wrong.
This is after all a good engineering practice: when you deploy
something new, do it carefully and not everywhere at the same time.
