On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:18, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Exactomundo. Even Google has to accomodate such. That's why > their model is piecemeal and localizes as much as they can. > > But even Google has an ASN, AS15169, when it comes to their > combined presence. I think they know better than to try to flap BGP routing around to accomodate a failed computer at one site or another, though. Is that what you are suggesting? BGP would normally be used to handle routing over multiple paths to a fixed location and would change in response to the route availability. You can play tricks by shuffling a route to a completely new destination if a whole site fails but the minimum you could move would be a whole class C at a time, and some bad things will happen during the switch as different machines with the old IP's become visible. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com