[address-policy-wg] Re: Assignments for Critical Infrastruction

Thu Oct 30 19:36:48 CET 2008

* Stephane Bortzmeyer:

> But anycast by itself does not protect you against problems with
> BGP/routing. If Pakistan Telecom announces one of your prefixes, or if
> a wrong/outdated bogon filter blocks it, anycast by itself won't
> help. Here, a second anycast cloud with a second prefix may help.

And BGP does not optimize for RTT, like some resolvers do, so too much
anycast will slow things down a bit.

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