Re: updating GSE for the new millennium

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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Joe is absolutely on the right path.

> contributed the following to RFC 1958:
>
>    3.11 Circular dependencies must be avoided.
>
>       For example, routing must not depend on look-ups in the Domain
>       Name System (DNS), since the updating of DNS servers depends on
>       successful routing

And if you change this to:

>       For example, core default free routing must not depend on look-ups in
>       the Domain Name System (DNS), since the updating of DNS servers depends
>       on successful defaul free routing

Long ago there was a discussion about whether or not DNS servers were 
things that needed to be multihomed - the answer was that they were not.

One does far better with multiple DNS servers on unique PA addresses.
DNS already deals with failover, etc...

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