Re: draft-manning-dnssvr-criteria-00.txt: 2 additions, 1 question

Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> Sun, 14 April 1996 06:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-manning-dnssvr-criteria-00.txt: 2 additions, 1 question
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>> 4. Singly homed (only one interface).
>
>Uh, why?  Modern BINDs on multihomed hosts manage correctly
>to emit UDP responses with the correct source IP address.
>For reliability's sake, it may well make sense for a given
>root server to have multiple IP addresses in separate routing
>domains, would it not?

It makes the ". NS" delegation packet larger.

>If there is some technical reason why a given NS should not
>have multiple A records, then would it be adequate for the
>box itself to be multihomed, but for only one of its 
>interface addresses to be mapped to the NS name?

Yes.
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