[136326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Addison)
Wed Feb 2 10:41:39 2011
In-Reply-To: <5CF16AD6-DDCC-4A72-AD30-9DFC653A0B6D@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:41:35 -0500
From: Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:23, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>wrote:
> But all of this could easily have been avoided: why are we _discovering_
> DNS addresses in the first place? Simply host them on well known addresses
> and you can hardcode those addresses, similar to the 6to4 gateway address.
> But no, no rough consensus on something so simple.
>
I'll admit right now that I don't know nearly enough about the IETF process,
but it looks like there have been 2 separate attempts at this:
draft-lee-dnsop-resolver-wellknown-ipv6addr - ID, expired
draft-ohta-preconfigured-dns - ID, expired
Until one of those is revived (or a similar draft is written), and makes it
through IETF to reach RFC status, and there are assigned addresses from
IANA, there are no well known addresses for anyone hardcode.
~Matt
