Anycast

Single destiantion IP has multiple path to two or more endpoints - One-to-one-of-many - Used in IPv4 and IPv6 - Looks like any other unicast address - Packet sent to an anycast address are delivered to the closest interface (the device closet to u) - Announce the same rout of multple data centers clinets use the data center closest to them - commonly used with Anycast DNS Anycast_visual.png