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To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, namedroppers@ops.ietf.org, ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:13:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200108081501.LAA13833@astro.cs.utk.edu>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary

At 11:01 AM 8/8/01, Keith Moore wrote:
> > With end-to-end multihoming, it is possible that application/transport
> > program periodically check DNS to be smoothly renumbered.
>
>that's insane.  you've just decreased the reliability of applications by
>at least two nines.

Not to mention melting the 'net under ever increasing DNS load, since we'd 
no longer be able to cache anything.
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Daniel Senie                                        dts@senie.com
Amaranth Networks Inc.                    http://www.amaranth.com


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