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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Mon, 31 March 2003 22:07 UTC

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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:03:26 -0500
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:49:03 -0600
"Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov> wrote:

> > Let's assume that there is a FooBar server in SiteA.  If another
> > node in SiteA (NodeA) is communicating via a multi-party application
> > to a node in SiteB (NodeB), and wants to refer NodeB to the FooBar
> > server in SiteA, what does it do?
> 
> I thought we agreed, completely outside of IPv6 concerns, that
> shipping addresses in application data was bad. 

what's this "we" stuff?  some individuals may have thought this was bad,
but there's never been widespread agreement.  actually it's bad to force
all apps to use DNS names - which are often less reliable, slower, less
correct, and more ambiguous than IP addresses.

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