oh k can you see

Pardon my stupidity, but could someone point to a good explanation of
Anycast (vs uni, broad and multi...)?

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:48 -0800, Steve Gibbard and a variety of
others wrote about anycast issues:

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Sam Crooks wrote:

Pardon my stupidity, but could someone point to a good explanation of
Anycast (vs uni, broad and multi...)?

{mutter, mumble, google is your friend}

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=anycast+definition

Well, it's not a _good_ explanation, since it's mostly visuals intended to
accompany a talk, but:

http://www.pch.net/resources/tutorials/anycast/

That might get you started.

                                -Bill

Also see:

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-grow-anycast-02.txt
   http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/abley.cluster.html
   http://www.isc.org/pubs/pres/USENIX/2004/usenix-isc-dns-dist.pdf
   http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2003-1.html
   http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html

Joe

rfc 1546 is a good start

i did not see sam's original query and he's not in my .procmailrc
wonder why

randy