To:
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
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From:
Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Date:
21 Nov 2002 20:27:16 +0100
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Subject:
Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> writes: > during meeting presentation RFC1101-like hack was proposed. > my take is: > (1) it is very bad for getaddrinfo/getnameinfo to synthesize things. > (2) see draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-04.txt, reverse mapping is > not required. > (3) it is too late to change getaddrinfo/getnameinfo behavior. > > so don't do it. I fully agree with this. Most of the justification for this is to support broken applications that barf when they fail to do the reverse lookup. This is a problem with the broken applications that we should not compromise the infrastructure to avoid fixing. Johan Ihrén Autonomica #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.