>> DNS does not provide the sort of intelligence necessary to direct >> requests to the most appropriate server
>Huh? A DNS can be as intelligent as it wants to be. Both are correct. The DNS protocol is a simple distributed name/value database. How you populate the values is your business, but anything beyond a simple name/value match is up to you, as it's not provided by the protocol. Add to which GLBs that CNAME everything, which is arguably an infraction of the standards. Kind regards Paul Wilkins On 17 June 2017 at 11:52, Luke <l...@flem.io> wrote: > > DNS does not provide the sort of intelligence necessary to direct > requests to the most appropriate server > > > Huh? A DNS can be as intelligent as it wants to be. > > > +1. For example, EDNS > <https://ripe67.ripe.net/presentations/206-L-dnswg-Streibelt-ClientIP.pdf> > . > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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