Hi Carol!

Dec 09 11:49 2018, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Markus Reschke:

 MR>> Wouldn't we get two FTS docs contradicting each other then???

 CS> Not if we align them.  Take what is in existing use, see what the 
 CS> differences are, then what tools already use them and see what works.

The FTSC documented one:
- if there's an address in the IBN flag use that one and only that one
- if the IBN flag doesn't include an address take all the addresses from all
INA flags

The undocumented standard:
- take all addresses in IBN and INA flags

Q: How ports are handled by the undocumented standard? If we have
INA:my-bbs.ddns.org and IBN:my-bbs.dyndns.com:8080 for example, does the port
number also apply the the address in the INA flag?

 CS> This isn't a really common thing to see (a site with 2 lookup 
 CS> addresses).  I'd say most of us with 2 have a reason for it.  Mine is 
 CS> backup connectivity for the most part.  I've had one or the other go 
 CS> off for a bit and with the game league (Battlenet) that can get nasty 
 CS> fast.

Over here most of the distribution nodes have several FQDNs for resilience. If
one dyn-DNS service fails the node is still reachable via its second FQDN.

ciao,
Markus

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