On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:16:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Again - DNS is the infrastructure for EVERYTHING. It facilitates > > EVERYTHING. > > Not so. On the public Internet applications like Edonkey and Emule work > fine without it. We run a global IP network that is not connected to the > public Internet and over 90% of our customers' applications don't use > any DNS. They use IP addresses directly.
Fair. If you have a small or stable enough private network that you don't need to use DNS to look up things that might be different from time to time, or to send e-mail by looking up where that mail goes, this works. I don't think it scales. And at least one person claimed not to be using DNS at all ... I suspect he just didn't know how it was priming his engine. > DNS is only a facilitator for those applications that WANT to use it. > And even though most current applications want to use DNS, they usually > function just fine with straight IP addresses. DNS is more of a habit, > than a necessity. So is using the decimal system rather than counting sticks. But it sure makes things doable versus insurmountable. > If the users of the Internet, collectively, decide that DNS is a bad > habit, better to be avoided, then you will see more and more > applications that work around the DNS. Like ICQ. Or they will only use > the DNS minimally in order to root their own namespaces, like LDAP with > RFC 2247. Lots of little edge apps. No core scalability. -- Joe Yao Analex Contractor
