Re: Multihoming in IPv6 (Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>]

At 06:19 14.12.99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:

> > >
> > >Application layer.
> > Not in my 5-line client, it's not.
> > Source/destination address choice inside whois? inside finger? NO.
>
> That was a flip remark for entertainment purposes, and it begs the question
> of what you mean, precisely, by "application layer" in a non ISO world.

to me, it's where different purposes do different things.


> That being said, it would be straightforward to bury something like this in
> libraries, so your 5 line application just loads with the multihoming
> library code, which would be, in practical terms, an integrated
> resolver/socket library that cached performance metrics for IP addresses
> associated with a particular domain name, and automatically switched to
> different IP addresses when performance became bad.  You would want to
> have it periodically ping the other addresses, as well.

Socket library/DLL, I can live with.


> I'm not proposing from a position of advocacy, you understand, but from a
> pure implementation point of view, it seems straightforward, and you could
> easily write 5 line clients that used it.

Understood.

                     Harald

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