If your application uses getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname (for IPv6), DNS round robin will not work. Urgh. Recently found this as the cause of our Java app only connecting to half of the hosts in our AWS ELB.
If your application uses getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname (for IPv6), DNS round robin will not work. Urgh. Recently found this as the cause of our Java app only connecting to half of the hosts in our AWS ELB.
This is the personal site of Cal Henderson, Tiny Specker, ex Glitch engineer, ex Flickr architect, programmer, author and chronic complainer.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles. I also blog at World of Theorycraft and those links show up here too.
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