Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On May 3, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:

> This was Vixie's last post on the subject of Anycast on DNSOP.
>
> NB: Patrick Gilmore and Chris Morrow, note that Vixie agrees that HTTP
> anycast is a bad idea.

Reasonable people can disagree.  I think Paul is reasonable, I hope  
he thinks I am reasonable.  We disagree.  Doesn't mean I won't buy  
him a drink at the next NANOG. :-)

Tell you what, if you come to Seattle, I will buy you a drink too,  
just to smooth things over.  Maybe we can agree to disagree, reasonably.

Also, whether Paul thinks it is a bad idea, or even if it really is a  
bad idea, that does not change the fact it was in wide use in the  
past, and probably still is used by many people without any serious  
problems.


NB [translation, "operational content"]: Akamai does not use any  
anycast for HTTP.  I am not at all certain why Paul is telling us  
this is a bad idea, since we don't do it.  Then again, we might in  
the future, I am not privy to every decision in the company.  (No,  
that is not a "hint", I really do not think we will do anycast HTTP  
for content delivery, but I also really do not know everything we  
will do in the future.)

Either way, Paul's advice is always welcome, even if we don't listen  
sometimes. =)

--
TTFN,
patrick