To:
"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Date:
Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:26:06 +0100
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<20000204051804.6659.qmail@cr.yp.to>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: RFC 2182 considered harmful
At 05:18 04.02.00 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>RFC 2182 also claims, without giving specifics, that some clients do not
>produce ``desirable'' results when DNS lookups fail. But any such client
>is clearly buggy, and won't survive in the marketplace---what do you
>think happens when the _client's_ network is inaccessible? The idea of
>100% DNS lookup success doesn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny.
It is good to know that Internet Explorer 5.0 won't survive in the marketplace.
Harald
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no