Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?

[Thomas Huth <THUTH at de.ibm.com>]

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon at nominum.com> wrote on 18/10/2009 23:57:45:

> Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?
>
> BTW, one way to do redundant tftp servers that I think makes a lot of
> sense is to have the redundancy in the domain name, because DNS
> already specifies a load balancing mechanism for names that return
> multiple A or AAAA records.   This would eliminate the problem you
> were trying to solve with multiple bootfile-url options.

Ok, we didn't consider that while writing the draft. And I guess when doing
an http boot, the situation is similar to a "normal" load balancing for a
web server, so administrators should already know how to deal with that.
--> We'll remove the multi-option approach from our draft.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
   Thomas Huth
                                                                       
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