On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Roger Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is the largest provider in the country utterly incompetent? > > Or is there something important about Internet architecture that I fail to > understand? > A couple of considerations: Just because two IP addresses have the same first three leading octets, it doesn't necessarily follow that they are in the same subnet. They are likely single IP adresses with a /32 prefix, and probably don't represent the underlying servers on a 1:1 basis. As Avi mentioned, with anycast a couple of service IP addresses like the two above can be announced in a lot of locations. Sam _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
