Rob Austein wrote: > > At Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:13:45 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > > > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > > following document as a Proposed Standard: > > > > Title: Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver > > I have written about this document at some length before, so I will > summarize rather than repeating the entire thing. In brief: > > My main objection was and remains that this mechanism, if used, moves > state away from the endpoints and into the network in a way that > cripples the resolver's ability to keep track of which of the name > servers it is using are performing properly, since the binding between > any particular well-known-address and the name server behind it might > change at any time and since there is no mechanism by which the > resolver can find out that such a change has taken place.
What if we applied the principles that Erik and I propose in draft-haberman-ipv6-anycast-rr-00.txt? That would allow for the resolver to bind an address for the server. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
