Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt

Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se> Thu, 21 November 2002 19:49 UTC

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To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
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Subject: Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt
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From: Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:27:16 +0100
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Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> writes:

> 	during meeting presentation RFC1101-like hack was proposed.
> 	my take is:
> 	(1) it is very bad for getaddrinfo/getnameinfo to synthesize things.
> 	(2) see draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-04.txt, reverse mapping is
> 	    not required.
> 	(3) it is too late to change getaddrinfo/getnameinfo behavior.
> 
> 	so don't do it.

I fully agree with this. Most of the justification for this is to
support broken applications that barf when they fail to do the reverse
lookup. This is a problem with the broken applications that we should
not compromise the infrastructure to avoid fixing.

Johan Ihrén
Autonomica

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