IPv4 ANYCAST setup

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Mar 26 14:03:22 UTC 2010


* Jeroen Massar:

> Simple recipe:
>  - Box with:
>    - Your favourite OS
>    - Quagga or OpenBGPd
>    - Your favourite DNS server
>  - Announce the IP of the anycast node in BGP
>  - Monitor the DNS server, when it does not work kill your local BGPd
>    and notify the admins that it broke

This is fine if you just use BGP to indirectly hook into your IGP.
For global anycast, you need a sufficiently short prefix with no
non-anycast services on it.  This can be difficult to justify for
newcomers.

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