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Re: Multihoming Issues

Joe Abley <jabley@AUTOMAGIC.ORG> Fri, 30 August 2002 18:23 UTC

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:57:07 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley@AUTOMAGIC.ORG>
To: Sister Sibling <ccs522g9@yahoo.com>
Cc: ietf@ietf.org, iesg@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Multihoming Issues
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:16:21PM -0700, Sister Sibling wrote:
> The IETF is recommending that the DNS mechanisms to support IPv6
> stay essentially the same as those already in use with IPv4 today.
> To our opinion, in the realm of multi-homed networks, the techniques
> used in IPv4 can't all be applied since they have scaling problems.
> Specifically, if the same prefix is advertised by multiple ISPs,
> the routing tables will grow as a function of the number of multihomed
> sites.

Could you clarify the relationship you see between multi-homing and
DNS in this context?

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