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Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Chown)
Mon Aug 20 11:54:23 2012

From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1208201638450.9973@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:53:30 +0100
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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On 20 Aug 2012, at 16:39, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:

> Shumon Huque <shuque@upenn.edu> wrote:
>> On 8/20/12 10:11 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
>>>=20
>>> The problem is RFC 3484 address selection; getaddrinfo is just the =
usual
>>> place this is implemented. I had believed that there was work in =
progress
>>> to fix this problem with the specs but it seems to have stalled.
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-05
>>=20
>> It's in the RFC editor queue actually:
>>=20
>> =
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484bis/?include_text=3D=
1
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484bis/history/
>=20
> Excellent :-)
>=20
> Tony.

I'll ask the IETF admins to link -revise to the bis draft so this =
continuation is clearer in the tools pages.

Tim



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