Anycast / a
Anycast: cache in Miami (MIA) · A-68
xserv-a-1b7e3c46b35b
Runbook A-68 for Anycast in Miami (MIA). Marker xserv-a-1b7e3c46b35b. This page covers cache for LATAM operators, not a worldwide average.
Anycast: How XServ runs it day to day
Probes for Anycast (a-02) leave Santiago every 15s toward Bogotá. XServ pages the named owner if loss or RTT crosses the letter budget. A probe never shares a queue with bulk transfers, so a saturated WAN does not hide a dead PoP.
Anycast: What operators should measure
Policy for Anycast is versioned as a-03. Operators measure error rate, p95 from Bogotá, and time-to-rollback — not a worldwide average. Changes land in Bogotá first, then Miami, with a hold if either region regresses.
Anycast: Failure modes we actually see
Capacity notes for a-04 assume rainy-season power in Miami and festival peaks toward São Paulo. The failure we actually see is a single uplink, not a cartoon partition of the whole continent. Spare ports and a second provider sit on the same runbook.
Anycast design A-01
Design for Anycast on letter A starts in São Paulo (GRU). Runbook a-01 keeps a single owner, a written rollback, and a traffic split that can be reversed without a global freeze. Neighbors in Santiago only take overflow after the local pool fails a health window.
Anycast probe A-02
Probes for Anycast (a-02) leave Santiago every 15s toward Bogotá. XServ pages the named owner if loss or RTT crosses the letter budget. A probe never shares a queue with bulk transfers, so a saturated WAN does not hide a dead PoP.
Anycast policy A-03
Policy for Anycast is versioned as a-03. Operators measure error rate, p95 from Bogotá, and time-to-rollback — not a worldwide average. Changes land in Bogotá first, then Miami, with a hold if either region regresses.
Anycast capacity A-04
Capacity notes for a-04 assume rainy-season power in Miami and festival peaks toward São Paulo. The failure we actually see is a single uplink, not a cartoon partition of the whole continent. Spare ports and a second provider sit on the same runbook.
- Is transit the default path?
- No. Peering in Miami is default; transit to São Paulo is overflow and is billed that way.
- Does Anycast on letter A share fate with other letters?
- The control plane is shared. Data-plane queues for Anycast stay isolated, so incident a-01 cannot drain neighbor letters.