On May 3, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
This was Vixie's last post on the subject of Anycast on DNSOP.
NB: Patrick Gilmore and Chris Morrow, note that Vixie agrees that HTTP anycast is a bad idea.
Reasonable people can disagree. I think Paul is reasonable, I hope he thinks I am reasonable. We disagree. Doesn't mean I won't buy him a drink at the next NANOG. :-) Tell you what, if you come to Seattle, I will buy you a drink too, just to smooth things over. Maybe we can agree to disagree, reasonably. Also, whether Paul thinks it is a bad idea, or even if it really is a bad idea, that does not change the fact it was in wide use in the past, and probably still is used by many people without any serious problems. NB [translation, "operational content"]: Akamai does not use any anycast for HTTP. I am not at all certain why Paul is telling us this is a bad idea, since we don't do it. Then again, we might in the future, I am not privy to every decision in the company. (No, that is not a "hint", I really do not think we will do anycast HTTP for content delivery, but I also really do not know everything we will do in the future.) Either way, Paul's advice is always welcome, even if we don't listen sometimes. =) -- TTFN, patrick