Keith Moore wrote: <Large snip>
> I could certainly make a case for some apps to have their own naming > systems and their own name-to-address lookup mechanisms independent of > DNS, or more generally, for alternate means of mapping resource names > (say URNs) to IP addresses that did not involve DNS names or DNS > queries. But it's difficult to believe that such apps would > not employ > DNS names at all - if nothing else, for initial configuration. You might almost forget about SMB/CIFS :) No DNS in there and most people use it daily without even realising it. Greets, Jeroen
