Fwd: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

[Just on shim6]

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> > > Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry
> > > too much about this one.

> > Where does the assumption that the network operators control the  
> > DNS  for
> > the end hosts come from?

> Thin air I think.  Certainly isn't the case with a large number of  
> domains we host.

Well, I guess we'll have to dust off A6 records... Those were created  
for this exact purpose.

We were talking about traffic engineering here, but this problem  
applies to simply having multiple AAAA records too, to a lesser  
degree, which is a fairly important notion in what we're trying to do...