Keith Moore wrote:
If DNS is too ambiguous, slow or unreliable for this purpose, shouldn't we fix DNS?Yes! If the referral model can be made to work with DNS, then many of the issues with referrals and limited-scoped addresses would go away (IMHO).so if it's too hard to make IP routing work well, we'll just declare it somebody else's problem? even though that somebody else is in an even worse position to solve that problem?
That is not what I am saying. Some of the arguments you have used are based on the DNS behavior. My point is that if we fix those, I would expect some of your concerns with referrals could be fixed by using names rather than addresses. Regards, Brian