* Jeroen Massar: > Simple recipe: > - Box with: > - Your favourite OS > - Quagga or OpenBGPd > - Your favourite DNS server > - Announce the IP of the anycast node in BGP > - Monitor the DNS server, when it does not work kill your local BGPd > and notify the admins that it broke
This is fine if you just use BGP to indirectly hook into your IGP. For global anycast, you need a sufficiently short prefix with no non-anycast services on it. This can be difficult to justify for newcomers. -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
