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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?


From: John Orthoefer <jco () direwolf com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:56:26 -0400


On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

dns is udp


15 years ago when we set up 4.2.2.1, there was a fair amount of TCP based DNS.   We tried for a bit to support it via 
the anycast address, but ultimately we decided the support issues weren’t worth it.  The few customers that 
asked/required it were given non-anycast addresses to use for TCP based DNS. 

I really think the OPs best answer is some DNS based load balancer, that can take metrics based on routing.

johno




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