Again - DNS is the infrastructure for EVERYTHING. It facilitates EVERYTHING.
Not so. On the public Internet applications like Edonkey and Emule work fine without it. We run a global IP network that is not connected to the public Internet and over 90% of our customers' applications don't use any DNS. They use IP addresses directly. DNS is only a facilitator for those applications that WANT to use it. And even though most current applications want to use DNS, they usually function just fine with straight IP addresses. DNS is more of a habit, than a necessity. If the users of the Internet, collectively, decide that DNS is a bad habit, better to be avoided, then you will see more and more applications that work around the DNS. Like ICQ. Or they will only use the DNS minimally in order to root their own namespaces, like LDAP with RFC 2247. --Michael Dillon