Enrico, Isn't this more about localizing the client instead of load-balancing in the first place?
Martin [email protected] NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Enrico Marocco > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [alto] [Fwd: [dnsext] Re: I-DACTION:draft-vandergaast-edns- > client-ip-00.txt] > > An interesting discussion about DNS-based load balancing -- a topic > that > hit this list a few times -- is going on on the DNSEXT WG. > > Anyone interested may join the WG list by sending an email with the > command "subscribe" in a single line in the message body to > [email protected] (just clicking on > mailto:[email protected]?body=subscribe should do the > magic). > > Web archives are available at http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/ > > Enrico > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [dnsext] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip- > 00.txt > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:56:45 +0100 > From: Wilmer van der Gaast <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Hello everyone, > > I spoke to Olafur about this idea in Hiroshima last year. I'm afraid > the deadline for Anaheim already passed, but we hope we can discuss it > on-line in the meantime and decide if it should become a WG item in > Maastricht later this year. > > To summarize the I-D: It specifies an EDNS0 option that carries IP > address information (by default only the first 24 bits to preserve > privacy) of the user that triggered a DNS resolution. This should > allow authoritative nameservers that give geo-targeted responses to be > more accurate, even in cases where the resolver and its users aren't > close to each other. To preserve the ability to cache such responses > efficiently, the option in the response can indicate which exact > subnet it should be cached for. > > Comments are more than welcome. > > > Regards, > > Wilmer van der Gaast > Carlo Contavalli > Google > > Sean Leach > Darryl Rodden > Neustar/UltraDNS > > > >From i-d-announce: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > > directories. > > > > > > Title : Client IP information in DNS requests > > Author(s) : C. Contavalli, W. van der Gaast, S. Leach, D. > Rodden > > Filename : draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-00.txt > > Pages : 20 > > Date : 2010-1-26 > > > > This draft defines an EDNS0 extension to allow Authoritative > > Nameservers to return varying replies based upon the network > address > > of the client that initiated the query rather than of the client's > > Recursive Resolver. > > > > A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip- > 00.txt _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
