Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2012, at 08:47 , Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > > > 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.
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 Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first.
