[80579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Wed May 4 00:08:32 2005
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 04:08:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F5AA133C-D11F-4B54-A661-66888CF8ECE8@ianai.net>
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PWG> Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 23:56:48 -0400
PWG> From: Patrick W. Gilmore
PWG> I was just talking about people setting up anycast name servers, each
PWG> of which pointed at a different HTTP server (or other service), to
PWG> spread load. In many cases, the two servers are the same.
Ah, okay... which again helps demonstrate the lack of coupling between
*cast and coherency. A single unicast DNS server can serve split views
just as easily.
PWG> No, it disproves. You say "it will not / cannot work". Showing you
PWG> a working instance in production absolutely disproves your statement.
PWG>
PWG> You can say "it might break", but that's a different statement.
Yes. I misread/misthought "disproves will not / cannot work" as "proves
can / will work".
Speaking of things that, and people who, are incoherent... ;-)
Eddy
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