On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Perry Lorier wrote:
trejrco@gmail.com wrote:
WRT "Anycast DNS"; Perhaps a special-case of ULA, FD00::53?
You want to allow for more than one for obvious fault isolation and load balancing reasons. The draft suggested using <prefix>:FFFF::1 I personally would suggest getting a well known ULA-C allocation assigned to IANA, then use <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:1 <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:2 and <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:3, where <protocol assignment> could be "0035" for DNS, and "007b" for NTP, and if you're feeling adventurous you could use "0019" for outgoing SMTP relay.
I thought ULA-C was dead... Did someone resurrect this unfortunate bad idea?
... Heck, start a registry (@IANA) and add in FD00::101, etc. ... Maybe reserve FD00::/96 for this type of "ULA port-based anycast allocation". (16bits would only reach 9999 w/o hex-conversion (if hex-converted could reserve FD00::/112 ... But would be less obvious))
Easily identified, not globally routable, can be pre-programmed in implementations/applications ... ?
Exactly, seems easy, straight forward, robust, reliable and allows for things like fate sharing and fail over.
Why pull this out of ULA? Why not pull it out of 0000/16 or one of the other reserved prefixes? Owen