On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 2-okt-04, at 21:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > Troll Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> keeps mentioning PPLB. May be some people
> > more knowledgeable about BGP than I am will explain to me why PPLB is
> > such a new issue for anycasting?
>
> I have no idea how new this is, but I have to admit I'm slightly
> worried. Not to the degree Dean seems to be, though.
I'm not saying that the sky is falling.
I'm just saying that if we ignore forseeable problems, then bad things
will happen, and that since they are foreseeable, we should take some
action to avoid those problems before we start to experience them in
practice.
And I am rather annoyed that I'm being called names by children who admit
they don't even have the technical background to argue one way or the
other.
And I am rather concerned that fairly obvious foreseeable problems
(Anycast is known not to mix with TCP, DNS is known to have TCP and known
to use it more in the future) were not discussed or foreseen earlier when
alternative solutions could have been proposed an implemented. This is a
valid criticism of those who deployed anycast on the roots.
And I am rather concerned that significant infrastructure is in the hands
of children who can't make better argument than name-calling. Not only is
that immature, it shows that they are not very creative or intelligient.
Children grow out of that behavior because they become more intelligent
and can articulate themselves. I think it is a bad thing for the people
placed in charge of important servers to have deficits in maturity,
creativity, and intelligence (and perhaps professional ethics).
Which problem is worse, the staffing problem, or the anycast-TCP problem
is anyone's guess. Probably the former, since it is harder to fix.
--Dean
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