12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
7:56 a.m.
On 12-Mar-2007, at 19:49, joshua sahala wrote:
TCP anycast works just fine (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/levine.html)...it is FUD (spread by verislime and others) that it doesn't work.
To be fair, Verisign have an extensive anycast deployment with COM/ NET and J-root, and they naturally support queries over both TCP and UDP transports. I've never heard anybody from Verisign suggest that anycast is fundamentally incompatible with TCP.
like ALL things network-related, you have to know what you are doing and understand the limitations...
... many of which we tried to capture in RFC 4786/BCP 126. Joe