Re: RFC 3484 section 6 rule 9 causing more operational problems

All,

I fail to submit a revision of my draft by cutoff, and
could not post it right now.
So I attached a draft to this e-mail.

I'm sorry that it does not reflect the discussion of this
thread greatly. I hope to have comments.

Kindest regards,

draft-arifumi-6man-rfc3484-revise-01.txt
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On 2009/03/04, at 23:33, Tim Chown wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:22PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> > 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
> The issue is mentioned in:
>
> http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-arifumi-6man-rfc3484-revise-00.txt
>
> "2.5.  To disable or restrict RFC 3484 Section 6 Rule 9
>
>   There was a discussion at v6ops and ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists 
> that
>   the rule 9 of the destination address selection has a serious  
> adverse
>   effect on the round robin DNS technique...."
>
> However the above has expired.  Perhaps Arifumi will issue a new  
> version
> before the upcoming cutoff.
>
> --
> Tim
>
>
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