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Re: IPv4 address length technical design

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sun Oct 7 23:11:58 2012

In-Reply-To: <20593.56697.240514.316192@world.std.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 23:11:26 -0400
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> Ok, then let's take a step back, perhaps not permanently, and say DNS
> resolution is only really useful for routers with more than just a
> single default external route.
>
> So DNS could be reduced to an inter-router only protocol, similar to
> BGP in some sense.

There's no party in the neighborhood you're searching. Turn it upside
down, on the other hand, and you end up somewhere like TRRP.
http://bill.herrin.us/network/trrp.html

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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