Anycast provider for SMTP?

Thu Jun 18 20:01:42 UTC 2015

Den 18/06/2015 21.52 skrev "Joe Abley" <jabley at hopcount.ca>:
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> On 18 Jun 2015, at 15:43, Jonas Björk wrote:
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>> While risking being slightly off topic: Does anyone use anycast dhcp
servers?
>> Have you run into any problems considering synching the leases?
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> Since DHCP uses broadcast and multicast addresses when a client is
discovering a server, it's not obvious why you'd have to.

Because clients will switch to unicast for renewal. Also clients will stay
with the current server forever, so you might have a bad distribution of
load between the servers. If one server was down everyone will switch to
the other and never go back until forced.

Regards
Baldur