On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:28, david raistrick <dr...@icantclick.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > No, the point is that DNS resolvers in different places all use the same >> addresses. So at the cyber cafe 3003::3003 is the cyber cafe DNS but at the >> airport 3003::3003 is the airport DNS. (Or in both cases, if they don't run >> a DNS server, one operated by their ISP.) >> > > Because no one has ever had a need to coexist with other DNS servers on the > same subnet, right? After all, there should only ever be 1 authorative > source of information, and there's no way we would ever want to have an > exception for that. > Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? What's wrong with having default well known (potentially anycasted) resolver addresses, which can then be overridden by RA/DHCP/static configuration? ~Matt
