IPv4 Anycast?

Wed Apr 22 21:33:23 UTC 2009

On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>>> Zhenkai Zhu wrote:
>>>> I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that  
>>>> the anycasted address space can be announced in different places  
>>>> yet with the same origin AS?
>>>
>>> Yes, and it is commonly done.
>> I was under the impression anycast services with homogeneous origin  
>> AS was far more common than the heterogeneous.  Almost all the  
>> instances I know of use homogeneous origin AS.
>> I'd be interested in statistics either way.
>
> 192.88.99.0/24, 2002::/16, and 2001::/32 are some
> notable examples of heterogeneous origin AS.

I know examples of both, although I will admit I did not know any v6  
ones. :)

However, I'm just interested in global stats.

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TTFN,
patrick