Jeroen Massar wrote: > Michael Krygier wrote: >> Any comments about what Drplokta wrote on his blog about Windows >> Vista implementing RFC3484 and breaking Round Robin DNS? > > It does *NOT* break Round Robin DNS, it breaks the assumption what > people make when they setup their DNS in that manner. Slight > difference ;)
It's old news - glibc also implemented rfc3484 in getaddrinfo(), which I reported to novell in dec2007, and which was previous reported in debian. > Clients running Vista and where you have a Round-Robin DNS setup where > the prefixes are very different will now hit the 'closest' prefix > instead of a random one like most implementations of DNS resolvers, > that is at first hit, when the connection to the first one fails they > will fall back to the next closest one. If you have your hosts on the > same subnet you won't notice the difference. You won't get any load-distribution either. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C) _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
