To:
mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Cc:
Alain.Durand@Sun.COM (Alain Durand), itojun@iijlab.net, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
Date:
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:32:59 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To:
<3FB1E75A.1070608@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> from "Masataka Ohta" at Nov 12, 2003 04:55:06 PM
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
well-known addresses / was DNS discovery
> Standardize? > > Apparently, you haven't read the well known address proposal. > > Masataka Ohta to reiterate my concerns expressed at the mic yesterday, Ohta-san, would you be comfortable with 200,000,000 devices being shipped with the IP address 131.112.32.188 (the address of one of your organizations nameservers) being burned into eeprom? disclaimers about restricting, by IETF fiat, well known addresses to special IP ranges will -NOT- work in the real world. If you are willing to commit your enterprise to absorb 0.1% of the total packets generated by 200,000,000 devices, then perhaps I will be persuaded that use of well-known addresses is an operationally acceptable technique. Yes, I know we do it now and it reduces the level of effort in getting new features deployed, but in -EVERY- case, the use of well known addresses has caused problems. --bill #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.