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[Falk Husemann <josen AT paketsequenz.de>]

On 17.05.2012 09:06, Amrit Panesar wrote:
> On 5/17/2012 12:01 AM, Falk Husemann wrote:

> I believe it would be a grand idea to experiment with anycasting. Not
> too sure where one would start with that, but an automatic
> geographically routed singular ip address to access OpenNIC servers
> would be optimal.

OpenNIC needs its own RIPE assigned AS and some IP-Space for that. Might 
not be too unrealistic, if we had a LIR on the ML. If we take a chance 
it might be even possible, but only for IPv6.

HurricanElectric does free (gratis) BGP routing when you have an AS and 
RIR allocated IP-Space. We could use tinc to setup a VPN without 
client/server in a mesh and route answers over that to primary servers 
which announce our prefix.

But is it worth the hassle and overhead? :)

PS.: Here's a nice overview of how anycast works. Note the references to 
BGP routers:

http://www.net.cmu.edu/pres/anycast/anycast.pdf

Falk