Anycast provider for SMTP?

[joe at nethead.com (Joe Hamelin)]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael at gav.ufsc.br> wrote:

> Any luck on a DNS based solution?
>

I'm looking into a F5 GTM solution based out of a colo we have in Europe to
direct SMTP between France and the US hubs.  Now I just have to work layers
8 & 9.

Remember when users didn't expect sub-minute delivery times?

Thanks for everyone's help, you've give me a lot of good ideas to consider
and I've learned more than I ever thought I would about anycast.  Although
I'm not on the BGP end of things anymore I value the minds, personalities
and pure history that NANOG brings.

Total side note: I remember back at a NANOG in Atlanta, 2000 maybe, at a
BOF on ARIN allocations where I was arguing for netblocks less than a /21
because Amazon couldn't justify that much at that time, I mean we only had
one public site but still wanted to multi-home. I remember Randy Bush even
backed me up on that one.  In the end I did get a block for Amazon and
brought up BGP.  Oh how times have changed (and how I wish I still had
those stock options!)


Best regards,

Joe  (ex JH484)

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Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474


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