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Alternatives to GSLB ?

Subject: Alternatives to GSLB ?
From: patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:54:43 -0400
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On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:12 PM, George Herbert wrote:

> I've seen that with clients.  It seems like there's a promised anycast
> land, out where Akamai is (where you really do have "local" nearly
> everywhere globally, so even strange routing foo doesn't mismatch the
> path too badly).

No Akamai traffic is directed via anycast.

Some of the name server IP addresses are anycasted, but that is for redundancy / capacity / name resolution performance, not to direct end users to web servers.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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