[116458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Aug 5 11:12:10 2009
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:43:31 +0700."
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:11:22 +1000
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In message <825C8AC7-C01E-4934-92FD-E7B9E8091A3A@arbor.net>, Roland Dobbins wri
tes:
>
> On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > We might have an alternative one day, but it's going to happen by
> > accident, through generalization of an internal naming service
> > employed by a widely-used application.
>
> Or even more likely, IMHO, that more and more applications will have
> their own naming services which will gradually reduce the perceived
> need for a general-purpose system - i.e., the centrality of DNS won't
> be subsumed into any single system (remember X.500?), but, rather, by
> a multiplicity of systems.
Been there, done that, doesn't work well. For all it's short comings
the DNS and the single namespace it brings is much better than
having a multitude of namespaces. Yes I've had to work with a
multitude of namespaces and had to map between them. Ugly.
> [Note that I'm not advocating this particular approach; I just think
> it's the most likely scenario.]
>
> Compression/conflation of the transport stack will likely be both a
> driver and an effect of this trend, over time.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
>
> Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well.
>
> -- Kevin Lawton
>
>
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