IPv6 and DNS Round Robin Jul 10th

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 was posted on Tuesday 10th July, 2012 at 1:31 pm Pacific.

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