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Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan () nonexiste net>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 01:08:36 -0500
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
<quote>i also remain convinced that using anycast to do distributed load balancing for applications like WWW, ... is silly, and will more often do harm or do nothing than do good. (and i've told akamai and speedera this many times.)</quote>The fact your digs returned different IPs for the same hostname has _nothing_ to do with anycast.
I never said that anycast was required to do this. I could do the same thing with BIND's views. I was interpreting it as 'using anycast to provide incoherent results is a bad idea'.
Current thread:
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd), (continued)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Mark Boolootian (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Dean Anderson (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Paul G (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) James (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Joe Abley (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Dean Anderson (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Paul G (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Dean Anderson (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Nicholas Suan (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Patrick W. Gilmore (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Nicholas Suan (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Dean Anderson (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Paul Vixie (May 04)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Mark Boolootian (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Edward B. Dreger (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited Rodney Joffe (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited Todd Vierling (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited Paul Vixie (May 04)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Edward B. Dreger (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Patrick W. Gilmore (May 03)
- Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd) Edward B. Dreger (May 03)