Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-01.txt

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>> ...  what i really need to know is the unique identity of the
>> server who gave me the result i just received in response to a
>> 'normal' query.  this is especially needed in an environment
>> where servers may be anycast.  this may be an edns thing.
> it would be pretty easy to use edns to solicit/carry a server
> identity blob but in thinking about this i've been unable to
> determine what that would have to look like.

my experience in managing servers is that they have a unique
unicast ip address.  even the anycast ones do so that they can be
managed, transfer zones, ...

> the nameserver service address might be NAT'd

i don't care.  they deserve the hell into which they consigned
themselves.

> if i loadbalance by running two processes on a dual-processor
> system, but they respond to the same address/port combos even
> though each one could have its own configuration, how many
> identities do i have?

too many :-)

so cat the pid or something similarly disgusting.

randy

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