[156126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Fri Sep 7 02:31:37 2012
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:30:24 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120906175913.GM7079@dyn.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> the DNS and won't discover anything about the DNS that can't be had
>> via getaddrinfo() until long after its too late redefine the protocol
>> in terms of seeking SRV records.
>
> Oh, sure, I get that. One of the problems I've had with the "end to
> end NAT" argument is exactly that I can't see how it's any more
> deployable than IPv6, for exactly this reason.
The easiest part of the deployment is to modify end systems.
> Because of the 20-year problem, I think now
> would be an excellent time to start thinking about how to make usable
> all those nice features we already have in the DNS.
Apple did it. See RFC6281.
Masataka Ohta
