On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 01:49:06PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
the DNS and won't discover anything about the DNS that can't be had via getaddrinfo() until long after its too late redefine the protocol in terms of seeking SRV records.
Oh, sure, I get that. One of the problems I've had with the "end to end NAT" argument is exactly that I can't see how it's any more deployable than IPv6, for exactly this reason. But the claim upthread was (I thought) that the application _can't_ know about this stuff, not that it's hard today. Because of the 20-year problem, I think now would be an excellent time to start thinking about how to make usable all those nice features we already have in the DNS. Maybe by the time I die, we'll have a useful system! Best, Andrew "living in constant, foolish, failed hope" Sullivan -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn Labs asullivan@dyn.com