On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 40 lines which said: > Not a week goes by when I'm not asked to figure out "why people > can't get to a web server" or "why email isn't working". In about > 70% of the web server cases and 30% of the email cases, the answer > turns out to be DNS related. IP failures, by contrast, are quite > rare. If it were true, I would wonder why people never use legal URLs like <http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/>... (And that's certainly not because they are harder to type or to remember: the above URL, which works on my Firefox, goes to a Web site which is mostly for technical people, who are able to use bookmarks, local files for memory, etc.) _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf