[c-nsp] Anycast services

[Tim Durack]

So everybody keeps saying. I know TCP is stateful, but for a web
proxy, seems like it would work well enough. Might have to refresh to
fix broken state, but users are used to that kind of behaviour on the
Internet anyway.

Maybe dns with low ttl is a simpler solution, but it doesn't solve the
problem of failing over when a proxy is dead.

Tim:>

On 5/18/06, Joe Provo <joe.provo at rcn.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:19:37AM -0400, Tim Durack wrote:
> > The subject of Anycast DNS has raised my curiosity. Anyone tried
> > anycast of other services, such as a web proxy? Or is there a better
> > way to do this?
>
> Anycasting UDP is good.  Anycasting TCP not so much.
>
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