[140799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Muller)
Thu May 19 09:48:42 2011
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:48:21 -0400
From: Erik Muller <erikm@buh.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3936B4B6-3B64-44FA-8BD0-867141329533@delong.com>
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On 5/19/11 3:46 , Owen DeLong wrote:
> Often, the time
> delay in DNS changes can be a blocking factor in addressing load issues
> by moving things around quickly. IP addresses can be moved with much
> greater agility than the DNS abstraction...
And having persistent IP address-to-service mappings aside from DNS can
also be useful for other things like firewall/IDS rules that often don't
use DNS at all.
-e
