On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Mark Andrews wrote:
This rule should not exist for IPv4 or IPv6. Longest match
does not make a good sorting critera for destination address
selection. In fact it has the opposite effect by concentrating
traffic on particular address rather than spreading load.
And it has caused problems in practice. I tried to start a discussion
about this in December last year. Here are links to the first messages in
the threads on the apps-discuss and dnsop lists.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/discuss/current/msg01035.html
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg05847.html
Tony.
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