M Graff wrote: > >> DNS does not know if you want to lookup the pool.ntp.org name to display >> a webpage or to >> get the address of an NTP server. >> > > Don't blame DNS here. It's not DNS's fault that multiple applications > want to use IP addresses for drastically different purposes. > No, but it *is* DNS's fault that it was designed as a name-to-address lookup service instead of a servicename-to-address-and-port service. There were exceptions made for mail, that allow the redirection of mail for a certain name to another address than the other traffic, but there should have been a generic mechanism like that from the beginning. And port numbers should have been served by DNS as well, not hardwired in the protocols.
SRV records are supposed to be the solution for this, but almost nobody queries them, so almost nobody makes them available, so almost nobody queries them. The www. prefix was a kludge to work around this problem. Rob _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
