30 Apr
2005
30 Apr
'05
4:29 a.m.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
So agreeing for a second with Dean that indeed this behaviour would appear to be prohibited or at least inconsistent with the RFCs, the fact is anycast is widely deployed and is proven to be stable.
"vixie-cast" is deployed on around 60 or so root DNS servers. (don't know the exact number) That covers a wide spread of root DNS servers, but I wouldn't call that 'widely deployed'. I haven't been able to find any users of HTTP anycast/'vixie-cast' that Patrick Gilmore referred. There
we do this 'http anycast' as part of another service... it seems to work well enough.