To:
Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc:
Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@ripe.net>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 06:21:50 -0600
In-Reply-To:
<Pine.GSO.4.44.0211050234160.14504-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: quibbles about what is anycast.
At 2:35 AM -0800 2002/11/05, Bill Woodcock wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote faster than he thought: > > True anycast for protocols other than UDP? I sincerely doubt it. > > If you have evidence for this, I'd love to see it. > > Works fine for TCP and ICMP. What protocols do you have doubts about? I have doubts about TCP. Can you explain in more detail how it works for TCP, especially for the case where the route from IP address A to IP address B changes to a different machine that serves IP address B, while in the middle of a connection? And how often do route changes occur? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.