Anycast provider for SMTP?

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 19:05:55 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> On 15/06/2015 19:09, William Herrin wrote:
>> Anycast + TCP = much pain, for reasons which should be obvious.
>
> This was presented at some conference or other a couple of years ago:
>
>> https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog37/presentations/matt.levine.pdf

>From that otherwise encouraging preso:

"What about IPv6? We have a plan! We plan to be dead before customers
demand IPv6".

I am pretty sure the authors are still alive(?).

I have been using anycast at a small scale on mesh networks, for dns,
primarily. Works.

> Nick
>
>



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