On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Here I agree.
Here I don't. The idea behind is good, the implementation is not.
Client would have to know BGP path to DA + DB and decide on
basis of routing protocol. Selection based on longest matching
prefix will work in only very small percent of case, all other cases
are based on pure luck.
Ondrej.
dns-based load balancing is an unfortunate overloading and
should never be done.
Here I agree.
RFC 3484 is correct as it is.
Here I don't. The idea behind is good, the implementation is not.
Client would have to know BGP path to DA + DB and decide on
basis of routing protocol. Selection based on longest matching
prefix will work in only very small percent of case, all other cases
are based on pure luck.
Ondrej.
> 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.
>
> RFC 3484 needs to be updated to delete this rule, so that the order
> returned from the DNS is honoured when the client has no better knowledge
> about which address is appropriate.
>
> See
> http://drplokta.livejournal.com/109267.html
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg51874.html
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/discuss/current/msg01035.html
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg05847.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2007/11/msg00029.html
>
> Tony.
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