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Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net>
Date: 12 Mar 2000 22:13:20 -0800
tdp () discombobulated net ("Travis Pugh") writes:
If the goal is to direct traffic from a client to the closest server farm, why not just build a box to do a BGP lookup and respond to a name lookup with the IP of that farm? No pings or zone transfers necessary.
AS path length is a rotten predictor of performance. (Just ask Cisco's Distributed Director team whether they knew that not all of AS701 was equidistant from their early adopters here in the Bay Area.) -- Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net> SVP for Internet Services, MFNX M.I.B.H. Inc. is a subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc.
Current thread:
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?, (continued)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? David Israel (Mar 01)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Alex Pilosov (Mar 01)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Paul Vixie (Mar 01)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Peter A. van Oene (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Ehud Gavron (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Chris Brenton (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Peter A. van Oene (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Dana Hudes (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Daniel Senie (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Travis Pugh (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Paul Vixie (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? David Israel (Mar 01)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Paul Vixie (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Marc Slemko (Mar 12)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Paul A Vixie (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Randy Bush (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Peter A. van Oene (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? adrian (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Peter A. van Oene (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Randy Bush (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Gary E. Miller (Mar 13)
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- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Randy Bush (Mar 14)