> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ted Lemon > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:15 AM > To: Alain Durand > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Softwires] draft-ietf-softwire-ds-lite-tunnel-option-06 > > On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Alain Durand wrote: > > Why can't we just say: "pass this to the local DNS resolver" and be done? > > Why > should the process of going through the search list be specified in this > draft? > > This is a good point. I think there's a tension here between being overly > prescriptive and not saying anything at all, though. Is there an RFC that > describes resolver in such a way that it could be referenced here? It's all > in > RFC1034, but not in such a way that you could make a meaningful and concise > reference to it.
I do not thing it should say "pass this to the local DNS resolver" but rather "pass this to the local name resolution library". Whether it gets resolved with DNS or hosts file or whatever else isn't important from the perspective of this option, and in practice I think people will just call getaddrinfo() on the value, rather than some DNS-specific API. -Dave _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
