* Tony Finch: > It seems that Vista implements RFC 3484 address selection, including the > requirement to sort IP addresses. This breaks a great deal of operational > dependence on DNS-based load balancing, as well as being based on an > incorrect understanding of how IP addresses are allocated. I assume you are referring to IPv4 address sorting. This has previously been discussed on DNS-related IETF WGs. The general belief is that this is not a DNS issue. I find this a rather strange conclusion, but we have to live with it. RFC 3484 is being revised in one or more of the IPv6-related WGs. I don't know how far this effort has evolved. There does not seem to be a way to address the IPv4 part of the issue indepedently. So right now it seems that the IETF is structurally incapable of correcting this badly engineered specification. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf