Re: To address or NAT to address?

[Yakov Rekhter]

Brian,

> > Christian,
> > 
> > > Increasing our reliance on the DNS is definitely not a good idea.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  This would appear to be the exact opposite of what the IETF has done
> > with IPv6.
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > -drc
> 
> Well now. There is some truth in that (A6 records are quite complex...)
> but NAT has generated some serious and complex dependencies on DNS too,
> not to mention various load sharing techniques.

With this in mind I hope that the same folks who complained about
increased dependencies on DNS by NATs, would be equally vocal in
complaining about increased reliance on the DNS by IPv6 (which claimed
to be an improvement over NATs).

Yakov.