On Aug 8, 2022, at 06:16, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ease of deployment: ability to use whatever application and OS interfaces > such as nsswitch.conf, a plugin in a browser, etc.
The only new use of nsswitch for the “hosts” entry within the last 20 years that I know of is systemd-resolved. It causes applications that use gethostbyname() versus getaddr_info() to see different results. It overloads the underlying resolving system in a bad way to become unpredictable and variable. Plus it is not a valid mechanism universally supported on most devices so while some laptops might use it, it’s not available on billions of phones. It is not a viable choice outside of a few nerds who are fully capable of getting a browser plug-in to handle gns:// URIs. Which would still allow all DNS parsing libraries to be used on the names. Paul _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
