% > How do applications get addresses? In my experience, a lot of
% > them get them out of the DNS. But, if we put SLs into the
% > DNS, we have to have split DNS...
%
% We need to do that anyway, because there is no valid reason to leak
% filtered addresses outside of their scope of routability. Ambiguity is
% the ruse that is use to make this an issue, but the real issue is that
% resolving a name to an address that is not routable from that point is a
% broken concept. Even if a site uses global scope addresses for its
% internal use nodes & applications, a name resolution that includes both
% filtered and unfiltered addresses will cause applications that falsely
% assume a single address scope to fail.
%
% Tony
This is something else that seems to have crept out of the
woodwork. Split DNS. Doe folks really think that this
"feature" is going to be required in addition to mandating
a functional DNS?
If so, what does this say to/about the IAB statement on the
requirement for a single DNS context?
--bill
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