Re: [RRG] thoughts on the design space 4: encapsulate vs. translate

["William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com> wrote:
> Jari, can I ask you one question. Does your host have every DNS name in the
> Internet cached (or should I not use the evil word "cache" but "stored"
> instead)? Why not? If you did, you wouldn't get delays connecting to your
> favorite web sites. Do you think it's practical? And if so, why hasn't it
> been deployed in our DNS implementations?

It *was* deployed and called "hosts.txt".  See RFC 1034 Section 2.1.

s/host name/identifier/g
s/address/locator/g

Regards,
Bill

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