Anycast provider for SMTP?

Thu Jun 18 19:54:38 UTC 2015

On 18/06/2015 20:51, Joe Abley wrote:
> Since DHCP uses broadcast and multicast addresses when a client is
> discovering a server, it's not obvious why you'd have to.

most non trivial (i.e. routed networks) would use dhcp relay, in which case
anycast dns could be argued to make some sense.  TBH, the OP would be
better off with multiple unicast installations with backup configured.
Most decent quality dhcp implementations can operate in active/failover mode.

Nick