People talk about how to get the best anycast setup going as possible, but how would one engineer the _worst_ (in terms of latency) anycast as possible? Send that stuff around the world! Go nuts! Do this 2019 joke from a blog post / talk of mine but on purpose!
one honk maybe more
erincandescent@akko...
replied 26 Mar 2024 22:53 +0000
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@benjojo Hmm… I’d start by having my Asian nodes single homed to HE, American nodes single homed to DTAG, EU nodes single homed to… uh, Verizon?
benjojo
replied 26 Mar 2024 23:20 +0000
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@erincandescent truncated to 'I’d start by having [snip] HE' :P I think the strat is to buy carriers in their weird non market locations, think: @ Cogent in Brazil
@ Sparkle anywhere in US
@ Arelion in Singapore
@ NTT in Australia
@ GTT in South Africa
@ PCCW in Kampala
@ HE in Guam
benjojo
replied 26 Mar 2024 23:11 +0000
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Reminds me how finding the shortest path between two things is entirely possible quickly (think A* etc), but finding the worst path possible is surprisingly hard for computers
mirabilos@toot.mirbs..
replied 26 Mar 2024 23:00 +0000
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eval@glauca.space
replied 26 Mar 2024 23:04 +0000
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@benjojo That’s certainly a thonk Intuitively, I suppose the search space to be really sure it’s the worst solution is a lot larger