On 05/14/2010 01:38 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote: > As you may have noticed I have been looking at the IPv6 support in the > last days, and now I am looking at how we perform DNS queries. > > Today we first do an AAAA query, followed by an A query. As we anyway do > both queries it would be better if we ran both in parallell. The > benefits of this is twofold: > > a) Lower latency. > > b) Easier policy on re-transmission > > But needs a bit of reshuffling to get done unfortunately, separating the > actual queries a bit from the lookup.
Is there an RFC or somesuch that recommends parallel lookups over sequential ones or vice versa? Thank you, Alex.
