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putting this issue to rest
- From: Paul A Vixie
- Date: Wed Aug 21 21:07:09 1996
Executive summary:
This is a getconninfo()/gethostbyaddr() issue rather than a res_send() one.
See the SONAR and SRV drafts to understand the current (published) thinking.
Detailed view:
>> Nope. Not only is DNS not a good directory system (see my comments on
>> ".COM is full" on the ietf list last year), it's not a good routing system
>> either. That it can be abused to either purpose is not significant, since
>> 99% of the people and companies who will be on the Internet aren't here yet.
> Paul, do you know of anyone who has done work on code to pick the best
> choice (ie, closest, fastest) from a list a multiple A records? Or on
> a name server that hands out "the best" A record.
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