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


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:39:01 +0100

Shumon Huque <shuque () upenn edu> wrote:
On 8/20/12 10:11 AM, Tony Finch wrote:

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

It's in the RFC editor queue actually:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484bis/?include_text=1
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484bis/history/

Excellent :-)

Tony.
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