On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > As for the web, I'm not as sure. Most people rely on portals, bookmarks > and search engines. Of those, only bookmarks are sensitive to DNS > failure because they are statically encoded by address. If search > engines started returning IP address URL's, necessary DNS traffic would > start dropping off pretty fast.
If DNS went away and the answer, even short-term, was "Use IPs instead!", we'd have an enormous issue in that hundreds of thousands of web sites that use Host Headers would all be screeching for IP addresses. Talk about IPv4 exhaustion issues! The sudden increase in core routing table entries for all of those new IP addresses wouldn't help, either. Email wouldn't be helped by the loss of MX records, either. Killing DNS absolutely will kill "the Internet", at least as far as the vast majority of Joe Sixpack users view it. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
