Re: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)

2009-08-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Erik Soosalu wrote: Multiple systems end up with problems. Yes, and again, I'm not advocating this approach. I just think it's most likely where we're going to end up, long-term. --- Roland D

Re: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)

2009-08-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: For all it's short comings the DNS and the single namespace it brings is much better than having a multitude of namespaces. I agree with you, but I don't think this approach is going to persist as the standard model. Increasingly, trans

RE: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)

2009-08-05 Thread Erik Soosalu
Multiple systems end up with problems. Even standard DNS blows up when some company (Apple) decides that an extension (.local) should not be forwarded to the DNS servers on some device (iPhone) because their service (Bonjour) uses it. Thanks, Erik -Original Message- From: Roland Dobbins

Re: DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <825c8ac7-c01e-4934-92fd-e7b9e8091...@arbor.net>, Roland Dobbins wri tes: > > On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > We might have an alternative one day, but it's going to happen by > > accident, through generalization of an internal naming service > > employed b