Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-addr-select-ps-02

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Rémi Denis-Courmont:

> Le Sunday 27 January 2008 22:39:21 Brian E Carpenter, vous avez écrit :
>> Not true if the sites concerned are both using PA space and
>> happen to have the same ISP. We still have hopes that PA space will
>> be predominant in IPv6, despite the PI heresy.
>>
>> Can you describe cases in which this rule is actively harmful?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/438179 : Rule 9 defeats round-robin DNS.
>
> The practical problem was with IPv4 address space, but as noted, there is no 
> reason why it would not apply to IPv6 as well as it gets deployed.
>
> Debian did end up overriding/ignored rule 9 by default.

I think this change has itself been overridden, so Rule 9 is active for
IPv4 address selection again.  (These changes have not affected Debian's
stable distribution, Rule 9 has been in use since Debian 4.0/etch.)