[35400] in North American Network Operators' Group
external issues in dns scalability (1995) (was Re: Namespaces)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Thu Mar 8 10:49:20 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Date: 08 Mar 2001 07:43:37 -0800
In-Reply-To: avg@kotovnik.com's message of "8 Mar 2001 03:29:42 -0800"
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avg@kotovnik.com (Vadim Antonov) writes:
> Just stop issuing alhpanumeric domain names and use numerals only.
In 1995, Brian Kahin invited a bunch of folks to come to DC and talk about
DNS ("a policy wonk's dream"). Not understanding that the whole thing was
a sham, I wrote a paper and presented it. The audience (hi Vint!) reacted
in stunned silence, and probably had a good laugh about it later at the bar.
I found the postscript files and converted them to PDF and put them online:
http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-paper.pdf
http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-slides.pdf
All I can really say is: "I told y'all so." Vadim, thanks for reminding me
that there was a time when these problems were still soluble.
