2. IP anycast
• Routing Practice mostly used at servers’ side
• Actually based on unicast routing
– the same IP addresses on multiple locations
– routers just forward packets to the ‘nearest’ node
based on its routing information
• It’s difficult for users to detect about other
anycast nodes
– Uses have little knowledge about network topology
– BGP is good at hiding information
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13. IP header
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version IHL TOS Total Length
Identification(16bits) Flags Fragment Offset(13bits)
TTL Protocol Header Checksum
Source IP address
Destination IP address
(Options and Padding if any)
Data...
23. Summary
• IP anycast is widely used
– Mostly to deploy DNS related services
– It’s actually a powerful technique
• It has a side effect
– IP anycast may break pMTUd as an ICMP erro
message from an intermediate router might reach
another node
– It also introduces a benefit that might prevent IP
fragment injection attack
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