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

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Wed, 02 April 2003 07:50 UTC

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From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
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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 tirsdag, april 01, 2003 11:33:46 -0800 Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU> 
wrote:

> 	Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not-
> 	use address literals?  If so, then Steve is wrong and
> 	the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working
> 	of the Internet.

anyone who believes that the DNS is not critical infrastructure for just 
about every single purpose the Internet is used for is either living in a 
fantasy world or has redefined the "Internet" to be something that's 
strictly at layer 3 and below.

there are advantages to being able to keep the layer 3 infrastructure 
running for a while (hours, I think) without referring to the DNS.
But for end-user purposes, the DNS being down equates to the Internet being 
down.

Infrastructure doesn't get much more critical than that.

              Harald

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