Pekka Savola writes: > Someone else with different transport protocol capabilities asks the > resolver about the addresses of these servers -- and get a partial response.
So what? Let's focus on what actually works from the user's perspective, not on religious concepts such as ``partial responses.'' Can you give a concrete example showing how the user would encounter a failure? To forestall irrelevant examples, let me emphasize once again that we're talking about DNS server addresses, not HTTP server addresses. > You're assuming that if you reach one IPv4 address, you can reach all. Ever heard of ``global addressing''? Right now, you aren't on the Internet if you can't reach the entire public IPv4 address space. In the future, if everyone with a public IPv4 address acquires a public IPv6 address, you'll be able to deploy a site that doesn't have any IPv4 access. Either way, the assumption is valid. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
