Anycast provider for SMTP?

Wed Jun 17 21:12:22 UTC 2015

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Soucy
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:14 PM
To: Joe Hamelin
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?

>As such, you typically only see it leveraged for simple services (e.g. DNS, NTP).

I've been thinking about this for NTP.  Wouldn't you end up with constant corrections with NTP and Anycast?  Or is the assumption your anycasted NTP hosts are all peers of each other and extremely close in time to one another?  That still wouldn't address the latency differences between the different hosts.

Chuck