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Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:35:12 -0800
Naturally, if it was a trivial issue, we wouldn't be debating it here.
you're somewhat disingenuous or new to this list.
a DNS oriented approach can be feasible in many situations.
yup. unfortunately the hack is not a good net citizen (some folk don't appreciate packets thrown at their servers), and some versions are not very accurate (as the server for foo.bar may be quite net.far from the host foo.bar). but then most bgp hacks, though better net citizens, are not brilliantly accurate either. the anycast hack really being the only one that scales and performs at all well. ymmv and tanstaafl. job security for senior geeks. randy
Current thread:
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?, (continued)
- 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? 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)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Marc Slemko (Mar 14)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Pete Templin (Mar 14)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Peter A. van Oene (Mar 14)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Adrian Chadd (Mar 14)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Hank Nussbacher (Mar 13)
- Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming? Scott McGrath (Mar 13)