* Tony Finch: > Rule 9 of RFC 3484 specifies that the IP addresses (v4 and v6) returned by > getaddrinfo() should be sorted according to the size of their common > prefix with the local host's chosen source IP address. This defeats DNS > round robin load balancing which has led to some severe operational > problems. DNS round robin needs to be documented in an RFC, and RFC 3484 > should be updated with rule 9 deleted or substantially modified for > compatibility with DNS round robin.
I think this belongs to the v6ops working group. It's a technical mistake that RFC 3484 talks about v4 stub resolver behavior at all, and that should be fixed. I'm not even convinced rule 9 makes sense for IPv6 as it is about to be deployed (with PI and routing generally as wild as in IPv4 land), but I haven't got any strong feelings about it. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
