Anycast provider for SMTP?

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Jun 16 18:28:44 UTC 2015


>Uh huh. The numbers are clear: 99.99% of the time it works. The other
>0.01% of the time you're screwed and had better pray the user is one
>of the ones you can afford to lose.
>
>Unicast TCP breaks too, but it has the virtue of being fixable 100% of the time.

I love the wry humor on the nanog list.

R's,
John

PS:

>If you read what Joe wrote, he doesn't currently have an AS number or
>employ BGP with his Internet providers. Extrapolate for his IPv4
>assignment situation and the /24 announcement barrier.

Assuming he has his own address space, why couldn't he just tell
them what the IPs are and ask them to announce it, like any other
customer does?



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