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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsop-respsize-00.txt
Rob Austein writes: > This has been suggested before, and it's an appealing idea, but it > assumes that resolvers will try every address of every listed server. No. No widely deployed program tries _every_ address; there are always limits. But if you try the 4x4 strategy (which still has quite a bit of room in the UDP packet) then you'll see that the load is spread quite evenly across 16 servers. The other strategy can't do better than 13. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.