[26622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Jan 10 16:14:33 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:12:32 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <200001102112.NAA14419@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net, randy@psg.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Randy Bush wrote:
>> I hear it was one of the first Internet's ideas - to declare well-known
>> addresses in addition to the well known ports.
> and notice that, in general, it did not catch on. and in the few places it
> did, it's been a continual pain in the ass. bad-idea fairy strikes again.
Well, the idea to attach FQDNs to services, not to computers, is pretty
sound; and could (if implemented) concievably replace lots of ad-hockery
like MX RRs, "virtual" HTTP servers, etc, etc.
WKS RRs weren't doing that - the boundary between host names and service
names was still in place; so WKS RRs were simply redundant. Following
the logic of lazylution they quietly died off.
--vadim
