16 Dec
2004
16 Dec
'04
6:52 a.m.
On 14.12 09:39, Todd Vierling wrote:
That's definitely true, though it can be used successfully -- if there's a very reliable kill-switch to withdraw the advertisement in a moment, or some kind of fallback mechanism in place to handle gross failures.
Using this as the *only* remedy for unavailability of an anycast instance is insufficient given the speed at which bad news travels in BGP. You want to have the service available at multiple addresses with each of those engineered as differently as possible. Daniel