Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt
Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@sun.com> Fri, 22 November 2002 01:08 UTC
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:48:09 -0800
From: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@sun.com>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt
To: Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>, dnsop@cafax.se
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Johan Ihren wrote: >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. > > From an architecture point of view, I would have some sympathy for this argument. However, from a pragmatic point, ISP who are doing it today in v4 land do it for some reasons. Can you assume that this set of reason is gone with IPv6? - Alain. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.
- draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
- Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
- Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt Johan Ihren
- Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt Alain Durand