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

Mon Aug 20 15:53:30 UTC 2012

On 20 Aug 2012, at 16:39, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:

> Shumon Huque <shuque at 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.

I'll ask the IETF admins to link -revise to the bis draft so this continuation is clearer in the tools pages.

Tim