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Nit: the host is not picked at random, but according to the RFC3484 algorithm. Since people typically don’t believe me about this, here it is from someone who

Nit: the host is not picked at random, but according to the RFC3484 algorithm. Since people typically don’t believe me about this, here it is from someone who has done a lot of networking programming: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/01/03/getaddrinfo-with-round-robin-dns-and-happy-eyeballs/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/01/03/getaddrinfo-with-roun...

9dev 2y ago
Arghh. I want to love IPv6, but they really work hard against it, don't they. Thanks, I didn't know this!
- bboreham 2y ago
  Even better: although the reason for the algorithm is IPv6, all mainstream implementations do it on IPv4 also.