"This sentence is self evident, almost a tautology." - Ok, probably I misinterpreted your comment about the NATs being evil, apologies. "About the load balance

"This sentence is self evident, almost a tautology." - Ok, probably I misinterpreted your comment about the NATs being evil, apologies. "About the load balancer, wouldn't the problem be solved with SRV records?" - the SRVs would certainly help a lot - however, the predominant user of the load-balancers, the web browsers, are not using SRV and not planning to. The http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jennings-http-srv-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jennings-http-srv-00 which proposed it (and which possibly could have been used by the clients too) - now got pushed into something that would never be possible to use by the browsers. Re. agreement - yes, I think we do agree.