[79773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Apr 14 19:10:52 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:09:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050414141626.12235798@mail.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:
> It's unclear why anycast would be required.
Well, DDoS attacks tend to be less effective when they are spread over a
large number of anycasted hosts. That was the main reason I attempted to
get anycasted DNS servers online there when I worked there.
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