On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:32 PM, ITechGeek <i...@itechgeek.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> > I'm surprised they don't set aside a small piece of their IP space that >> an >> >> 'they' and 'their' here are confusing, which 'they' and 'their' did you >> mean? > > > In this case they being Google and their being Google's IP space (but you > can replace Google w/ any provider using caching servers).
this has the same uncertainty problems with other folk I imagine. > When I was using Comcast 6to4 gateway, the latency wasn't too bad (I'm a > Comcast customer). If the anycast is being broadcast from a regional > datacenter and your ISP has good connectivity, the latency shouldn't be bad > (in the QIX case above, the latency shouldn't be any worse than QIX's IPs > unless someone started advertising the same anycast subnet w/ a lower cost). there are a lot of ifs there... and failover is where the problems arise :(
