[dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)

Wed May 4 06:08:36 UTC 2005

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> <quote>
> i also remain convinced that using anycast to do distributed load  
> balancing for applications like WWW, ... is silly, and will more  often 
> do harm or do nothing than do good.  (and i've told akamai and  speedera 
> this many times.)
> </quote>
> 
> The fact your digs returned different IPs for the same hostname has  
> _nothing_ to do with anycast.
> 

I never said that anycast was required to do this. I could do the same 
thing with BIND's views. I was interpreting it as 'using anycast to 
provide incoherent results is a bad idea'.