DNS as 1980s technology [was Re: The Internet 2.0 box Was: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all]

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Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> DNS is the Achilles heel of the Internet.  it's way too unreliable, too
> hard to configure correctly, too often out-of-sync with the real world. 
> it's not extensible enough.

DNS is surely the worst global naming system ever invented, except for
all the others that have been tried.

I'm sure that if we were to go back to a clean slate, and reinvent a
new system, and it had to have such key properties as scalability,
global-scope, etc., etc., it would look astonishingly like the DNS we
have today.

How many times have people tried to develop a faster, cheaper, more
reliable (UDP-based) transport protocol to replace TCP? And the resuls
of those efforts are where?

Railing against the shortcomings of the current DNS (or any current
technology, for that matter) does little to get us to a better system.
If you know of a better approach, what are you doing to make it a
reality?

Thomas


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