To:
Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
Cc:
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
Date:
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:48:09 -0800
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Subject:
Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-00.txt
Johan Ihren wrote:
>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.
>
>
From an architecture point of view, I would have some sympathy for this
argument.
However, from a pragmatic point, ISP who are doing it today in v4 land
do it for some reasons.
Can you assume that this set of reason is gone with IPv6?
- Alain.
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