[dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed May 4 09:48:56 UTC 2005


On Tue, 3 May 2005, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
>
> When anycast gets _really_ interesting is when an anycasted client makes
> a request [from an anycasted address] to an anycasted server.

Why would anyone use an anycast address as a client? Wouldn't it be
simpler to make all client connections from the machine's unicast address?

Tony.
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