[80553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue May 3 18:09:29 2005
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Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:03:12 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On May 3, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
> This was Vixie's last post on the subject of Anycast on DNSOP.
>
> NB: Patrick Gilmore and Chris Morrow, note that Vixie agrees that HTTP
> anycast is a bad idea.
Reasonable people can disagree. I think Paul is reasonable, I hope
he thinks I am reasonable. We disagree. Doesn't mean I won't buy
him a drink at the next NANOG. :-)
Tell you what, if you come to Seattle, I will buy you a drink too,
just to smooth things over. Maybe we can agree to disagree, reasonably.
Also, whether Paul thinks it is a bad idea, or even if it really is a
bad idea, that does not change the fact it was in wide use in the
past, and probably still is used by many people without any serious
problems.
NB [translation, "operational content"]: Akamai does not use any
anycast for HTTP. I am not at all certain why Paul is telling us
this is a bad idea, since we don't do it. Then again, we might in
the future, I am not privy to every decision in the company. (No,
that is not a "hint", I really do not think we will do anycast HTTP
for content delivery, but I also really do not know everything we
will do in the future.)
Either way, Paul's advice is always welcome, even if we don't listen
sometimes. =)
--
TTFN,
patrick
