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Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

  • From: Brandon Ross
  • Date: Thu Apr 14 19:11:30 2005 
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Daniel Senie wrote:


It's unclear why anycast would be required.
Well, DDoS attacks tend to be less effective when they are spread over a large number of anycasted hosts. That was the main reason I attempted to get anycasted DNS servers online there when I worked there.

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