Questions about anycasting setup

Fri Mar 9 09:34:24 UTC 2012

Re Bill,

woody at pch.net (Bill Woodcock) wrote:

> > Well, let's say, using Quagga/BIRD might not really be best practice for
> > everybody... (e.g., *we* are using Cisco equipment for this)
> How does your Cisco know whether an adjacent nameserver is heavily loaded, and adjust its BGP announcements accordingly?

It doesn't have to.

I don't know how you guys do it, but we take great care to
keep min. 70% overhead capacity during standard operation.

Elmar.