In message <4fd66fe1.9000...@hpl.hp.com>, Andris Kalnozols writes: > On 6/11/2012 2:54 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Andris, > > you should also be pushing for proper multi-homed server > > support in those applications that are causing you problems (read > > just about all IP applications). This is relatively easy for TCP. > > > > https://www.isc.org/community/blog/201101/how-to-connect-to-a-multi-homed-s > erver-over-tcp > > I agree. Our networking group has plans to push out IPv6 capability > as one of the Next Big Projects and applications really need to have > some kind of Happy Eyeballs capability. I used your select(2) code > in a legacy application that I ported to IPv6 and it works very well. > Of course, this would also address the general problem of clients > timing out on a bad multi-address answer regardless of IPv4/v6.
I'm glad someone has used it and that it has helped. A comment in the blog to that effect wouldn't go astray and would be different to all the other blog spam that gets rejected. I kept arguing that HE should just be made address family agnostic but the working group wanted to do a IPv4 vs IPv6 thing. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
