Re: /8 end user assignment?

[Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog () vicious dropbear id au>]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> > could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely
> > volume of v6 traffic, you would not have a v6 load worth balancing?

> Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be load 
> balanced by putting a good number of AAAA records in the DNS?

_Eventually_, DNS packet size and a desire to avoid truncation at that 
level would stop you.  Nothing stopping you from having say 4 As and 3 
AAAAs attached to one www record though.

Personally, I think that having two AAAA records will hold you in place 
for long enough that vendors will catch up with decent AAAA load balancing 
support, unless of course you get hit by the mythical IPv6 killer app in 
the meantime.

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Bruce.