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

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 20 October 2009 18:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Niall.oReilly+lists@ucd.ie wrote:
> 	I know. Unless the nameserver has custom policy tuning, I'll
> 	probably get three different permutations of the records.
>
> 	It's quite a leap from there to what you claimed.

I claimed that this permutation process acts to balance the load.    
Which it does.   I guess if you want something cleverer than that, you  
could implement a protocol that balances the load through some sort of  
query-based handoff system, but that's completely out of the realm of  
what we've been talking about.

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