New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Thu Apr 14 23:09:03 UTC 2005

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:

> It's unclear why anycast would be required.

Well, DDoS attacks tend to be less effective when they are spread over a 
large number of anycasted hosts.  That was the main reason I attempted to 
get anycasted DNS servers online there when I worked there.

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