<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span class="gmail-im">>> DNS does not provide the sort of intelligence necessary to direct<br>
>> requests to the most appropriate server<br>
<br>
</span>>Huh? A DNS can be as intelligent as it wants to be.<br><br></div>Both are correct. The DNS protocol is a simple distributed name/value database.<br><br></div>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.<br><div><br></div><div>Kind regards<br><br></div><div>Paul Wilkins<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 June 2017 at 11:52, Luke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@flem.io" target="_blank">luke@flem.io</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><br><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">DNS does not provide the sort of intelligence necessary to direct<br>requests to the most appropriate server<br></blockquote><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Huh? A DNS can be as intelligent as it wants to be.</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div>+1. For example, <a href="https://ripe67.ripe.net/presentations/206-L-dnswg-Streibelt-ClientIP.pdf" target="_blank">EDNS</a>.</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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