20 Aug
2012
20 Aug
'12
9:18 a.m.
On Aug 20, 2012, at 08:47 , Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> said:
* How many applications are even aware multiple addresses were returned?
Most anything that supports IPv6 should handle this correctly, since getaddrinfo() will return a list of addresses to try.
Ah, the amazing new call which destroys any possibility of randomness or round robin or other ways of load balancing between A / AAAA records. Yes, all of us returning more than one A / AAAA record are hoping that gets widely deployed instantly. Or not. -- TTFN, patrick