[25544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP and NAT (question and some thoughts)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Mon Oct 18 16:15:39 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:31:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
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To: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:29:29 EDT."
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> Yes, but...
>
> The first step doing any increase difficult was done when the
> HOST_NAME->IP_ADDRESS translation was chosen instead of
>
> HOST_NAME:SERVICE -> IP_ADDRESS:PORT
>
> Now we have a lot of troubles due to this choose.
Of course if we could implement RFC2052 everywhere...
I wonder if _any_ popular end user software has quietly added forward
compatibility with SRV records?
-Phil
