On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:38 AM Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peace,
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 5:35 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anycast has been the ultimate DDoS mitigation tool for a decade already
> It’s certainly *a* tool. Ultimate is in the eyes of the beholder.
> My employer doesn’t use it.
Well it does.
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/product-brief/prolexic-proxy-product-brief.pdf
... as do a large number of (TCP) CDNs and content providers.
The CacheFly writeup is one of the better descriptions - https://www.cachefly.com/anycast-think-before-you-talk-part-i/
and this LinkedIn post is also not bad: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-your-own-anycast-network-9-steps-samir-jafferali/ and https://www.slideshare.net/shawnzandi/how-linkedin-used-tcp-anycast-to-make-the-site-faster
To be honest I wasn't going to get involved in this thread due to the tone of some of the messages, but...
W
--
Töma
The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the
complexities of his own making.
-- E. W. Dijkstra
complexities of his own making.
-- E. W. Dijkstra
