The ORIGIN option on BGP - what is it for?

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Boothe
: What do people use ORIGIN: EGP vs ORIGIN: IGP to distinguish? What makes a route EGP vs. IGP to you? -Peter -- Peter Boothe Graduate Student in Computer Science Beyond BGP Project University of Oregon http://soy.dyndns.org/~peter

Re: How to tell if something is anycasted?

2006-05-17 Thread Peter Boothe
servers.net" or somesuch. If they don't do that, then you are stuck with more ad-hoc methods like traceroutes from many different locations, or checking out AS-PATHS in Routeviews and using your intuition. -Peter -- Peter Boothe PhD Student "Young man,

Re: How to tell if something is anycasted?

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Boothe
This is, of course, somewhat off the subject of whether the original provider in question does that - they may or may not, and the only way to know is to test and find out. Or ask them. -Peter -- Peter Boothe PhD Student "Young man, you think you're ve

Re: How to tell if something is anycasted?

2006-05-18 Thread Peter Boothe
the majority of ASs, anycast is a net win in reliability even for stateful DNS, as long as the flows are short-lived. Counter-intuitive, I agree. But it seems to be true for the existing DNS anycast deployment on the internet (or at least was true in late 2004). -Pe