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Re: quietly....
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:52:46 +0100
On 2 feb 2011, at 16:35, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
But all of this could easily have been avoided: why are we _discovering_ DNS addresses in the first place? Simply host them on well known addresses and you can hardcode
So, when I take my laptop from Home to work, to the airport, to some random cyber cafe I should have to manually alter my DNS servers assuming I can find someone in the location who can tell me what they are ??
No, the point is that DNS resolvers in different places all use the same addresses. So at the cyber cafe 3003::3003 is the cyber cafe DNS but at the airport 3003::3003 is the airport DNS. (Or in both cases, if they don't run a DNS server, one operated by their ISP.) I understand people use DHCP for lots of stuff today. But that's mainly because DHCP is there, not because it's the best possible way to get that particular job done.
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- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Nick Hilliard (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Chris Adams (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Matt Addison (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Karl Auer (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Cutler James R (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Greg Estabrooks (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Antonio Querubin (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... George Herbert (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... John Payne (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... David Barak (Feb 02)