Re: DNS & IPv6

On 05/14/2010 01:38 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> As you may have noticed I have been looking at the IPv6 support in the
> last days, and now I am looking at how we perform DNS queries.
>
> Today we first do an AAAA query, followed by an A query. As we anyway do
> both queries it would be better if we ran both in parallell. The
> benefits of this is twofold:
>
> a) Lower latency.
>
> b) Easier policy on re-transmission
>
> But needs a bit of reshuffling to get done unfortunately, separating the
> actual queries a bit from the lookup.

Is there an RFC or somesuch that recommends parallel lookups over
sequential ones or vice versa?

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Sat May 22 2010 - 23:05:04 MDT