begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:16:50AM -0700: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > As for the web, I'm not as sure. Most people rely on portals, bookmarks > > and search engines. Of those, only bookmarks are sensitive to DNS > > failure because they are statically encoded by address. If search > > engines started returning IP address URL's, necessary DNS traffic would > > start dropping off pretty fast. > > If DNS went away and the answer, even short-term, was "Use IPs > instead!",
Well... pass around hosts.txt. How big would hosts.txt be these days? I read somewhere (can't recall) that there were ~400 million hosts on the 'Net. Building up a list of "favorite" sites wouldn't be hard at all. > we'd have an enormous issue in that hundreds of thousands of > web sites that use Host Headers would all be screeching for IP > addresses. Maybe. Maybe not. Seems like we'd have a quick fix. Instead of http://foo.bar.tld/qux http://meep.baz.tld/quux we'd have http://123.45.67.89/foo.bar.tld/qux http://123.45.67.89/meep.baz.tld/quux ...in a matter of hours. > Talk about IPv4 exhaustion issues! The sudden increase in > core routing table entries for all of those new IP addresses wouldn't > help, either. Hm... that would imply that we're not ready for IPv6, either. > Email wouldn't be helped by the loss of MX records, either. Bang paths! I can see Google doing well by stepping into the breach. "Bang-path through us! We know just about where everyone is!" > Killing DNS absolutely will kill "the Internet", at least as far as the > vast majority of Joe Sixpack users view it. For the ones who berate the ISP for "your Internet is broke" every time they forget to plug in their cable-modem, yeah. But somehow, I can't see that as significant... sure, it's a lot of money, and yeah, they're the marks that allow an ISP to make a profit and stay in business. But still, it's not like any content is actually *destroyed*. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
