On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > but if its optional, and untrustworthy, and currently incomplete and broken,
> > and breaking other services, its worth questioning its value.
>
> DNS as a whole is optional. Why do we need to use names at all?
> Why don't we all just memorize numbers and be done with it?
Because there is a great deal of value, very little harm, and compared to
the value there is very little work to keep it up.
> Sorry, I don't buy this "if it's optional then we shouldn't do
> it" argument.
Its not merely because reverse is optional part of a DNS server
implementation. It is the optionality, _and_ the harms that come with it,
_and_ the very little value of the information, _and_ the very large
amount of work to keep it up, which when taken together make it a
questionable service.
--Dean
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