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

Cameron Byrne cb.list6 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 14:57:18 CEST 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:
>> > I can't claim credit for the idea, but perhaps instead of playing TTL
>> > tricks CDNs can just load-balance differently.  If the requested query
>> > type is an A RR, and the resolver's source IP is one of those known to
>> > have v6 clients (or not one of those known to have broken v6) send
>> > them to a datacenter that's a bit further away that the v6 datacenter.
>>
>> That is pretty good, in fact much better than playing TTL games, but not ideal because some network operator must assume the cost of additional transport.
>
> And now there is also an economic incentive to use IPv6 ;-)
> Sander
>

I am buying futures for data center space in Iceland since CDN logic
will go IF UA String == Apple or other bad HE THEN serve content from
Iceland.

:)

I am still hoping for a better way.

CB


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