Subject: RE: [Asrg] Devilish: Forget about DNS

From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:39:39 -0800

> Oh, no.  That's wrong.  You want to continue using DNS 'for 
> what it was
> built' which is mapping between names and addresses. You just 
> don't want
> to use it for this particular, new name/address mapping.

Actually Paul Mockapetris stated in a recent interview that the DNS was
intended to be more than a mapping from DNS names to IP addresses. Jon
had thought it could do more from the start.

The thing that makes DNS work is the fact that the query type supported
is very weak, exact match only, wildcards are really a default mechanism 
rather than a true wildcard match you would get in X.500.

	Phill 

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