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Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?


From: Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:05:55 -0700

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
On 15/06/2015 19:09, William Herrin wrote:
Anycast + TCP = much pain, for reasons which should be obvious.

This was presented at some conference or other a couple of years ago:

https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/presentations/matt.levine.pdf

From that otherwise encouraging preso:

"What about IPv6? We have a plan! We plan to be dead before customers
demand IPv6".

I am pretty sure the authors are still alive(?).

I have been using anycast at a small scale on mesh networks, for dns,
primarily. Works.

Nick





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