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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf