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

"Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org> Wed, 02 April 2003 17:55 UTC

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From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: 'Keith Moore' <moore@cs.utk.edu>, 'John C Klensin' <john-ietf@jck.com>
Cc: bmanning@ISI.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...))
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 19:49:41 +0200
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Keith Moore wrote:

<Large snip>

> I could certainly make a case for some apps to have their own naming
> systems and their own name-to-address lookup mechanisms independent of
> DNS, or more generally, for alternate means of mapping resource names
> (say URNs) to IP addresses that did not involve DNS names or DNS
> queries.  But it's difficult to believe that such apps would 
> not employ
> DNS names at all - if nothing else, for initial configuration.

You might almost forget about SMB/CIFS :)
No DNS in there and most people use it daily without even realising it.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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