Edward B. DREGER wrote:
I'm generally ignoring other protocols to limit the discussion scope. However, one can see how SMTP and FTP might be similarly handled. (IMHO not as good as a SRV-ish system that could return NXDOMAIN per service, but actually somewhat usable today.)
No, you should not. The other iportant things that come into my mind are mail ---- My thunderbird does use dns, looking for MX records mostly. For me it is the most important application. phone ----- Either VoIP or Skype they both need dns, looking for NAPTR? The box is hardware. It does not run windows and it has its own resolver onboard. dns --- Some resolvers do not use forwarders. They know whom to query. They will get a hickup if somebody is returning them the wrong ip address for a nameserver (agreed, if you use e.g. djbdns you most likely will not use OpenDNS in the first place) -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49(6252)671-788 (Telekom) +49(179)108-3978 (O2 Genion) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter@peter-dambier.de mail: peter@echnaton.serveftp.com http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/