[81418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Thu Jun 9 05:37:37 2005
In-Reply-To: <42A7374A.9000606@he.iki.fi>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:40:04 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> >The Internet needs a PA system.
>
> There is this sparsely deployed technology called multicast which would
> work for this application.
Note that the original poster did use multicast for his
query. He sent one copy to nanog@merit.edu where his
email was replicated and forwarded to multiple recipients
who had subscribed to that stream.
IP multicast is not the only way to do multicasting
on the Internet.
--Michael Dillon
