Re: quibbles about what is anycast.

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:35 AM -0800 2002/11/05, Bill Woodcock wrote:

       Brad Knowles wrote faster than he thought:
     > True anycast for protocols other than UDP?  I sincerely doubt it.
     > If you have evidence for this, I'd love to see it.

 Works fine for TCP and ICMP.  What protocols do you have doubts about?

I have doubts about TCP. Can you explain in more detail how it works for TCP, especially for the case where the route from IP address A to IP address B changes to a different machine that serves IP address B, while in the middle of a connection? And how often do route changes occur?

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