On m�ndag, nov 4, 2002, at 16:28 Europe/Stockholm, Randy Bush wrote:

When _people_ see problems with data from one IP-address, they call
whatever party is responsible for that IP address.
no, they call their isp.  the vast majority of them wouldn't know
an ip address if it bit them on the butt.
Who do people at the ISP call?
when it is a dns problem, their dns folk.
No, not if the DNS problem has to do with problems at a DNS server they don't have inside their network.

do remember that this
happens today and has been happening for many years.  isps have
been using anycast dns for many years.
Yes, but not for what we are now discussing, if I understand things correctly. See my question below.

Also, when you say "isps", you are using a very very very broad brush, and that argument doesn't help in this discussion.

Say I buy IP from ISP A, which in turn buy transit from B which
buys transit from C. If C internally have an anycast copy of IP
address 1.2.3.4, and I send a packet to that address, will the
packet go to the copy of the 1.2.3.4 address at ISP C, or to ISP
D where the "original" is, the one which is mentioned in whois?
first, this is the same problem as any transitive service.

second, as many of us have repeatedly said, routing of anycast
addresses has to be appropriately scoped, as it has to be today.
it would be useful to have a discussion of 'appropriately' if we
could stop ratholing on other issues.
I thought I had a very specific question?

Default route for ISP A is to B, for B is to C. If C _internally_ have a copy of the IP address 1.2.3.4 for it's own use, will traffic from B to C reach that server, or the real 1.2.3.4 which is at D which B ask C to transit traffic to?

Customer -> A -> B -> C ----> D
| |
v v
1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4

I.e. it is one thing if ISP C have multiple copies of server 2.3.4.5 which it own, and all copies are within the AS of ISP C.

My scenario is something different. I talk about ISP C hijacking traffic which B think should go to D, and it goes to C instead.

My view is that this _is_ ok, if both copies of 1.2.3.4 is handled by the same organization, so when A, or B calls the organization, they can check both servers and see they are in sync.

paf


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