Keith Moore wrote: > > Sounds like you both are arguing that the DNS has become > > "embedded" and the applications that use IP are unusable > > without a working DNS. > > as a practical matter, this was true even in IPv4. yes, you can > often use address literals in either v4 or v6 apps, but this isn't > practical for ordinary users on an ordinary basis. and in both v4 and > v6, several essential apps (e.g. email, the web) have explicit > dependencies on DNS. yes you can use address literals in email > addresses and URLs but there is no assurance that an email address or > URL with an address literal is equivalent to the same address or URL > with a domain instead of the address. Both email and the web define > their resources in relation to a DNS name, not relative to a host or > address. > > of course it is possible to write apps that do not use DNS, > but this is rarely done.
Fortunatly we still all are humans and like names, not numbers :) We'll let the numbers to computers (big fast math machines) Our brains are more advanced and just can't cope with numbers any more ;) Greets, Jeroen
