[Freeipa-devel] A new proopsal for Location Based Discovery

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 16:18 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> Before we start talking about using DNS for this purpose, have you
> considered
> to use IP anycast for this? You can simply create multiple servers
> with same IP
> address on different places over the world. After that you announce
> this IP
> address from multiple places simultaneounsly via BGP and BGP
> automatically
> routes all clients to the closest node. Advantage is that this is
> already
> implemented, used and nothing have to be modified.
> 
> Regards, Adam
> 
We cannot assume our customers can influence or have access to change
BGP routing, so I excluded multicast solutions from the get go.
Also it requires more changes on the clients which is another heavy
minus.

Simo.

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