happy CGN -- beating happy eyeballs and trending toward E2E success

["Roger Jørgensen"]

> Hi,
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> Being a hack, i always look to solve problems with DNS trickery first:
>
> Would aggressive caching of AAAA and aggressive non-caching of A
> result in beating happy eyeballs on OSX?
>
> I don't own any Apple products, so i cannot test this myself.
>
> i setup a very simple test web page
>
> http://test1.cgn.strangled.net/b.shtml
>
> DNS TTL = 1 day for A and AAAA (the control)
>
> and
>
> http://test2.cgn.strangled.net/b.shtml
>
> DNS TTL = 1 day for AAAA and 1 second for A (the experiment)
>
> To get the effect, you would need to refresh a few times to prime the DNS
> cache.
>
> Let me know your thoughts and results.
>

test1 gave me IPv6 first, then just IPv4. test2 gave me only IPv4. Running
macosx 10.7.4...



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