[116459] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Soosalu)
Wed Aug 5 11:21:18 2009
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:20:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: <825C8AC7-C01E-4934-92FD-E7B9E8091A3A@arbor.net>
From: "Erik Soosalu" <eriks@nationalfastfreight.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Multiple systems end up with problems. Even standard DNS blows up when
some company (Apple) decides that an extension (.local) should not be
forwarded to the DNS servers on some device (iPhone) because their
service (Bonjour) uses it.
Thanks,
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Dobbins [mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:44 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)
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 =20
> accident, through generalization of an internal naming service =20
> employed by a widely-used application.
Or even more likely, IMHO, that more and more applications will have =20
their own naming services which will gradually reduce the perceived =20
need for a general-purpose system - i.e., the centrality of DNS won't =20
be subsumed into any single system (remember X.500?), but, rather, by =20
a multiplicity of systems.
[Note that I'm not advocating this particular approach; I just think =20
it's the most likely scenario.]
Compression/conflation of the transport stack will likely be both a =20
driver and an effect of this trend, over time.
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Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well.
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