verizon.net and other email grief

Thu Dec 16 11:52:19 UTC 2004

On 14.12 09:39, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> That's definitely true, though it can be used successfully -- if there's a
> very reliable kill-switch to withdraw the advertisement in a moment, or some
> kind of fallback mechanism in place to handle gross failures.

Using this as the *only* remedy for unavailability of an anycast instance
is insufficient given the speed at which bad news travels in BGP. You want
to have the service available at multiple addresses with each of those 
engineered as differently as possible.

Daniel