On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> The last analysis I saw is that anycast is in some sense a fiction. That is,
> it is not meaningful to describe an anycast IP "address" as an address
> according to any of the useful definitions of address.
> Rather, it is a name for a collection of things.
> We have merely overloaded the routing system so as to route on that
> particular kind of name.

Joel,

So you see an abnormality here, not a pattern in the evolution of routing?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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