[80584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Wed May 4 02:09:48 2005
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 01:08:36 -0500
From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> <quote>
> i also remain convinced that using anycast to do distributed load
> balancing for applications like WWW, ... is silly, and will more often
> do harm or do nothing than do good. (and i've told akamai and speedera
> this many times.)
> </quote>
>
> The fact your digs returned different IPs for the same hostname has
> _nothing_ to do with anycast.
>
I never said that anycast was required to do this. I could do the same
thing with BIND's views. I was interpreting it as 'using anycast to
provide incoherent results is a bad idea'.
