On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:12 PM, George Herbert wrote: > >> I've seen that with clients. It seems like there's a promised anycast >> land, out where Akamai is (where you really do have "local" nearly >> everywhere globally, so even strange routing foo doesn't mismatch the >> path too badly). > > No Akamai traffic is directed via anycast. > > Some of the name server IP addresses are anycasted, but that is for > redundancy / capacity / name resolution performance, not to direct end users > to web servers.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. It was suggested in the dark past that Akamai could or should do that; they didn't. It was tangental to the point I was making and I simplified wrongly. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
