[155618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Aug 20 09:18:50 2012
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120820124734.GA14383@hiwaay.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:18:01 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 20, 2012, at 08:47 , Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> said:
>> * How many applications are even aware multiple addresses were =
returned?
>=20
> Most anything that supports IPv6 should handle this correctly, since
> getaddrinfo() will return a list of addresses to try.
Ah, the amazing new call which destroys any possibility of randomness or =
round robin or other ways of load balancing between A / AAAA records.
Yes, all of us returning more than one A / AAAA record are hoping that =
gets widely deployed instantly. Or not.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
