[119155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Balashov)
Sun Nov 8 19:02:22 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:01:38 -0500
From: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
To: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF75B2B.8050609@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Dave Temkin wrote:
> Alex Balashov wrote:
>> Thought-provoking article by Paul Vixie:
>>
>> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302
>>
> I doubt Henry Ford would appreciate the Mustang.
I don't think that is a very accurate analogy, and in any case, the
argument is not that we should immediately cease at once all the
things we do with DNS today.
DNS is one of the more centralised systems of the Internet at large;
it works because of its reliance on intermediate caching and
end-to-end accuracy.
It seems to me the claim is more that DNS was not designed to handle
them and that if this is what we want to do, perhaps something should
supplant DNS, or, alternate methods should be used.
For example, perhaps in the case of CDNs geographic optimisation
should be in the province of routing (e.g. anycast) and not DNS?
-- Alex
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