Anycast provider for SMTP?

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Tue Jun 16 21:06:52 UTC 2015


On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
>> On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:49 , Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>> William Herrin wrote:
>>
>>> If you read what Joe wrote, he doesn't currently have an AS number or
>>> employ BGP with his Internet providers. Extrapolate for his IPv4
>>> assignment situation and the /24 announcement barrier. In an
>>> IPv4-depleted world, he won't be doing anycast any time soon, even if
>>> it was a sound plan.
>>
>> Anyone having /24 can start hosting business with 255*N anycast servers.
>>
>> 							Masataka Ohta
>
>
> I donÿÿt think thatÿÿs quite trueÿÿ I think you will find that 254*N is 
> probably the best theoretical Max with just a /24 and that more likely, 
> youÿÿll need some hosts on that subnet that donÿÿt necessarily provide 
> anycast services bringing the practical limit somewhat lower. Of course, 
> if you have what you need to do 255, you can probably actually do 256.

Advertise the /24, internally route 256 /32s to the devices that service 
those IPs on one or more networks numbered out of other IP ranges.  The 
machines all need unique unicast IPs anyway.

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