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Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?]
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:18:01 -0400
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?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. -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ?, (continued)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Gary Buhrmaster (Aug 19)
- Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Dobbins, Roland (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Dobbins, Roland (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Mark Andrews (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Chris Adams (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Shumon Huque (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tony Finch (Aug 20)
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- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Tim Chown (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Nick Hilliard (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Mark Andrews (Aug 20)
- Re: Return two locations or low TTL [was: DNS caches that support partitioning ?] Mark Andrews (Aug 20)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Aaron Hopkins (Aug 20)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? Andrew Sullivan (Aug 17)
- Re: DNS caches that support partitioning ? John Levine (Aug 17)