On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:49 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> I did the selection/sort-weighting on names rather than addresses
> deliberately... it seemed to me to be more in line with the conceptual
> structure of the SRV mechanism.  An SRV record points to a name, not to
> an IP address.  That name may have many addresses, and an address may
> have many names.  Using the name to bias the weighting seemed less
> likely to cause problems than trying to do something at the address
> level (it was also _much_ easier to implement).

The essential difference is that this mechanism acts only when the
presented domain name is an SRV name, one of whose targets is the same
as the host's name.  (As opposed to when the presented domain name has
several A records with different addresses, where one address is the
host's address.)  The latter case is unlikely in systems that are
configured according to our recommendations, but we should make sure
that we make this choice consciously.

Dale


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