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> DNS should perform round-robin in the order of the IPs in the UDP packet. That only works if the clients choose the first IP address in the response to conne
by teddyh 3y ago
> DNS should perform round-robin in the order of the IPs in the UDP packet.
That only works if the clients choose the first IP address in the response to connect to. But IPv6, IIUC, specifies that clients instead always use the IPv6 address it has the longest stretch of bits in common with, compared to its own IPv6 address.
- teddyh 3y agoFortunately, there will probably exist, in the somewhat near future, another solution providing simplistic load balancing: HTTPS and SVCB records in the DNS: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https...>