Anycasting IPv6 TCP and UDP
Anycasting IPv6 TCP and UDP Inspired by LinkedIn's own Samir Jaferali's post on Building your own anycast network in 9 steps . Register for an ASN via an LIR, I used ip6.im and Fairnode , who gave me a free /39 IPv6 prefix of the type ( ASSIGNED, ALLOCATED-BY-LIR ) . PI is "ASSIGNED PI" or "ASSIGNED ANYCAST" (special). PA is ALLOCATED-BY-RIR, ALLOCATED-BY-LIR, AGGREGATED-BY-LIR and ASSIGNED. Things I wish I knew : You cannot announce any of your network prefixes outside of RIPE regions, these are for use in RIPE regions only. The exception to this is anycast traffic. ASN and IP prefixes that fall under RIPE can be announced and anycasted in the world as long as one PoP has a RIPE region presence. This can be as easy as a virtual machine in Europe whose location can be occasionally confirmed via traceroute. Dear APNIC, why can't you be as easy to work with? RIPE registration and role types to create: inet6num mntner organisation...