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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:22:51 -0400
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Kurt Kraut via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
Ray, "Anycast is generally not well-suited for stateful connectivity (e.g. most things TCP)." I don't know anything that would support that claim. I have been using for years BGP anycast for audio and video streaming, always in TCP (RTMP, HLS, WMS, and even the good and old ShoutCast) and works like a charm. And this is the 'secret sauce' of the company I work for, the thing we do better than our competitors that make our users happy and never wanting to leave us: anycast. We have customers that are TV stations and stream 24x7x365 their content and they have watchers getting their streaming also 24x7x365 (like waiting rooms, airports) with no complaints or instability.
most of this conversation is a distraction from the OP's question though... since his core problem is: "Broken mta behaviour" and won't really be solved with anycast/etc. TCP anycast seems to work just fine, agreed. UDP anycast seems to work just fine, agreed. any anycast deployment has it's warts, understanding that and them will make operations and services smoother.
Current thread:
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?, (continued)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Hamelin (Jun 15)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? William Herrin (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Robert Blayzor via NANOG (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Rafael Possamai (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Hamelin (Jun 16)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Ray Soucy (Jun 17)
- RE: Anycast provider for SMTP? Chuck Church (Jun 17)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Abley (Jun 17)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Ray Soucy (Jun 17)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Kurt Kraut via NANOG (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Christopher Morrow (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Ray Soucy (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Abley (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Ben (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Rob Seastrom (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Jonas Björk (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Joe Abley (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Nick Hilliard (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Baldur Norddahl (Jun 18)
- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Jonas Björk (Jun 18)
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- Re: Anycast provider for SMTP? Larry Sheldon (Jun 18)
- RE: Anycast provider for SMTP? Chuck Church (Jun 17)