Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-21 Thread Allen Smith
We used anycasting extensively at a previous employer where we were something like an ad network, impacting the load performance our customers web pages for their end user browsers. It worked like a champ, with the following caveats: * We advertised our nets to the same set of peers at all of our

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-19 Thread David Reader
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:25:08 +0100 Johan Borch wrote: > Thanks for all replies. > > My IGP is not very large and changes are small.Load balancers are expensive > and the commercial products don't really fit in the budget. The idea is that > the sites should be active-active and take over for eac

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Terry Baranski
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 13:45, Johan Borch wrote: > Would web traffic be suitable to use with anycasting? The > applications in question is a standard website with database > backend that I need to load balance (active-active) between > multiple sites. The active-active part is the problem.

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:45, Johan Borch wrote: > Hi, > > This is not a specific Juniper question, but there seems to be a lot for > knowledge on this list so I will give it a shoot :) > > Would web traffic be suitable to use with anycasting? The general answer is no, but in specific cases, it

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Morrow
On 01/18/11 16:25, Johan Borch wrote: > Thanks for all replies. > > My IGP is not very large and changes are small.Load balancers are expensive > and the commercial products don't really fit in the budget. The idea is that > the sites should be active-active and take over for each other if one o

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Johan Borch
Thanks for all replies. My IGP is not very large and changes are small.Load balancers are expensive and the commercial products don't really fit in the budget. The idea is that the sites should be active-active and take over for each other if one of them fail, but this sound like a challenging tas

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:45:58 +0100 > From: Johan Borch > Sender: juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net > > Hi, > > This is not a specific Juniper question, but there seems to be a lot for > knowledge on this list so I will give it a shoot :) > > Would web traffic be suitable to use with anyc

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
Johan, As Frank hinted - I think GeoIP-based anycast DNS would be a much better solution here, basically if you can afford it you could use Akamai DNS anycast - there is also GeoDirector which I think is free - or try using BIND with GeoDNS patch yourself, but that's if you host your own DNS. Y

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Morrow
On 01/18/11 14:58, Frank Sweetser wrote: > On 1/18/2011 1:45 PM, Johan Borch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is not a specific Juniper question, but there seems to be a lot for >> knowledge on this list so I will give it a shoot :) >> >> Would web traffic be suitable to use with anycasting? The applicat

Re: [j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 1/18/2011 1:45 PM, Johan Borch wrote: Hi, This is not a specific Juniper question, but there seems to be a lot for knowledge on this list so I will give it a shoot :) Would web traffic be suitable to use with anycasting? The applications in question is a standard website with database backen

[j-nsp] Anycast

2011-01-18 Thread Johan Borch
Hi, This is not a specific Juniper question, but there seems to be a lot for knowledge on this list so I will give it a shoot :) Would web traffic be suitable to use with anycasting? The applications in question is a standard website with database backend that I need to load balance (active-activ