well-known Anycast prefixes

Fredy Kuenzler kuenzler at init7.net
Tue Mar 19 17:46:24 UTC 2019


Am 19.03.19 um 18:39 schrieb Bill Woodcock:
>> On Mar 19, 2019, at 10:12 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler at init7.net> 
>> wrote: I wonder whether anyone has ever compiled a list of 
>> well-known Anycast prefixes.
> 
> I don’t know of one.
> 
> It seems like a good idea.
> 
> BGP-multi-hop might be a reasonable way to collect them.
> 
> If others agree that it’s a good idea, and it’s not stepping on 
> anyone’s toes, PCH would be happy to host/coordinate.

Thanks for the effort, much appreciated.

Am 19.03.19 um 18:40 schrieb Joe Provo:
> I think one would want that internal and no rely upon someone else
> maintaining it.  You might check if Oracle followed up on the 
> Renesys/Dyn work documented: 
> https://dyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/NANOG59_Anycast.pdf
> 
> ...where there were ~600 anycast v4 prefixes at the time.

That's a lot %-]

Maybe a well-known community (similar to RFC7999) could be defined and
every Anycast operator could tag his prefixes? That's likely a better
idea than manually maintain some list somewhere.

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