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Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:04:57 +0200
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Re: Stepping back on the DNS discovery discussion
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>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com> writes:
Bob> I think the RA approach has advantages in environments where a DNS
Bob> (-lite) two packet exchanges would be a problem. I suspect that in
Bob> many cases the addresses of the recursive DNS servers could be in
Bob> the same RA message that prefixes and other link information were
Bob> contained. This would be significant reduction in traffic as it
Bob> would avoid any extra packets.
okay, so we have decided that DNS is *so* much more important than any
other services, that we will put it into the RA.
Hardly surprising for dnsop :-)
Do other services out there get space in the RA?
Since we have explicitely, no state established, there will be no update
to the reverse - unless one of several other proposal is also accepted.
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