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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ MALIN HEBRIDES BAILEY: SOUTHEASTERLY BECOMING CYCLONIC OR SOUTHWESTERLY 4, INCREASING 5 TO 7. MODERATE, OCCASIONALLY ROUGH LATER. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
