Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Sun, 24 July 2011 19:32 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:02:59PM +0200, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2011/7/24 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>:
> > But that's not what I meant, I meant that DNS is not the only solution
> > to resolve host names. WINS, NIS and /etc/hosts are usable too. When I
> > was a student in 94, we had all our passwords and hostnames in NIS and
> > no DNS was configured. It worked like a charm. DNS is not something
> > mandatory at all for many protocols. It just happens to be the standard
> > over the public Internet.
> 
> Ok, I get your point now :)
> But, do current webbrosers resolve names using anything but DNS A?
> (well, I know that they use /etc/hosts). Anyhow, WINS / NIS /etc/hosts
> and such stuff just maps a hostname into a single IP. It's the
> equivalent of a DNS A resource record. Think about locating a mail
> server (MX is required), you need a DNS server.

... or a static entry (the "Smart Relay host" entry you see in on the DS
line in sendmail.cf). That's the case of any mail client in a campus, they
don't use DNS to send outgoing mail. And even within the mail relays and
servers, it's quite common to have a relaydomains file to map domains to
servers.

Willy