Re: Alternatives to GSLB ?

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:12 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>
> > I've seen that with clients.  It seems like there's a promised anycast
> > land, out where Akamai is (where you really do have "local" nearly
> > everywhere globally, so even strange routing foo doesn't mismatch the
> > path too badly).
>
> No Akamai traffic is directed via anycast.
>
> Some of the name server IP addresses are anycasted, but that is for redundancy / capacity / name resolution 
> performance, not to direct end users to web servers.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that.  It was suggested in the dark past
that Akamai could or should do that; they didn't.

It was tangental to the point I was making and I simplified wrongly.


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-george william herbert
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