Internet vulnerabilities

Fri Jul 5 12:22:29 UTC 2002

FYI - for those scratching their heads on "anycast" .....

I just pushed out a paper on anycast by Chris Metz. Good foundation
material.

http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/essentials/ip-anycast-cmetz-03.pdf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Bill Woodcock
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:56 AM
> To: Marshall Eubanks
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Internet vulnerabilities
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>     > But the only IPv4 anycast
>     > that I know of does use MSDP :
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> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-anycast-rp-08.txt
>     > Is there a different proposal ? What's the RFC / I-D name ?
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> You seem to be confusing anycast with something complicated.  It's not a
> protocol, it's a method of assigning and routing addresses.
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>                                 -Bill
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