v6 gluelessness
Iljitsch van Beijnum
iljitsch at muada.com
Mon Jan 21 13:29:51 UTC 2008
On 21 jan 2008, at 14:02, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> and please tell me why any of the tech and admin pocs of these
>> cctlds should give a <bleep> what my server's actual ip address is.
> Going back to operational issue (yes, incredible as it may seems, I
> won't write here what I think of ICANN), there is a *technical*
> solution to this issue, which is the one deployed by the
> RIPE-NCC. Give a different *name* (and may be a different *IP
> address*) to every ccTLD.
This is suboptimal because it limits the opportunity for nameservers
to measure RTTs and contact the fastest server.
TLD operators should make up their mind: either control their servers,
or trust the people that they gave control to to make these kinds of
decisions.
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