[80587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed May 4 05:49:31 2005
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:48:56 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505032316290.30895-100000@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
>
> When anycast gets _really_ interesting is when an anycasted client makes
> a request [from an anycasted address] to an anycasted server.
Why would anyone use an anycast address as a client? Wouldn't it be
simpler to make all client connections from the machine's unicast address?
Tony.
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