Renumbering is an example of the ``every problem can be solved by
another level of indirection'' principle. I've been asking why this
indirection should be in the _client_ rather than the _server_.
So far, all I've heard is that (1) this might save more queries than it
wastes, even though the analogous assertion for MX records is not true,
and (2) this would occasionally save some DNSSEC CPU time.
Robert Elz responds, on three other mailing lists:
> If you care to look back over the archives (IPNG, and
> perhaps DNSIND) you will see why things are the way they are.
I'm sorry, but I don't see server-side indirection discussed anywhere in
the IPNG archives. What exactly were the dates of the discussion? What
benefits were attributed to client-side indirection?
---Dan
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