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one killer feature tinc has is a poor man's anycast you can assign an ip to any number of nodes and tinc will talk to the one with the lowest latency. i've use
by fhkdfjgh 3y ago
one killer feature tinc has is a poor man's anycast
you can assign an ip to any number of nodes and tinc will talk to the one with the lowest latency. i've used this to run globally distributed dns on a tinc network
- alyandon 3y agoI've been doing that with keepalived for redundant dns. Are you saying I could put the dns vip as a secondary IP (keeping the primary node IP) in the tinc host config?
- cbluth 3y ago> you can assign an ip to any number of nodes and tinc will talk to the one with the lowest latency. i've used this to run globally distributed dns on a tinc network Can you (or someone) explain more in depth how that works, or how one could replicate that?
- dizhn 3y agoThat is pretty neat.