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Paul Mockapetris On The Future of DNS

Posted by timothy on from the smooshing-in-extra-stuff dept.

penciling_in writes "In a CircleID article called Letting DNS Loose, Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist and Chairman of Nominum, gives a good indication of what is to be expected in the upcoming years when it comes to data riding on DNS: "RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email addresses and host names, and a variety of other identifiers could all go into DNS, and folks have occasionally proposed doing just that. It's really just a question of figuring out how to use the DNS -- it's ready to carry arbitrary identifiers." According to Paul, there are 40 or so data types to be added to DNS: "In fact the whole ENUM scheme is built out of classical DNS technology, and NAPTR is really just the latest data type to be added to the DNS. NAPTR is also just an extension of SRV, which was an extension of MX, which are DNS data types that Active Directory uses to start itself and the Internet uses to route each piece of mail." Paul also clarifies the recent BBC story previously discussed here on Slashdot."

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  1. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wooo hooo....I can finally set up an email box in cyrillic.

  2. BSD is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  3. trollkore and clit and gnaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i don't like you!!!!1!!!1@##1

    hoello?

  4. Re:You saw it coming. by The+Human+Cow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd love to know how the first post for this story got modded "Redundant".

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  5. Re:TROLLKORE ARE DEAD by Shit...that's+a+good · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shit...that's a good nickname!

  6. Re:TROLLKORE ARE DEAD by Shit...that's+a+good · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shit...that's a good troll.

  7. DO NOT by fastidious+edward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stand beside Trollkore, a decaying mass will infect all those near. Trollkore have beem dessimated. They are no more. They have been defeated. The GNAA are nowhere to be seen. Trollkore are dead.

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  8. Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    #ping wong

  9. What a name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This Mockapenis guy should lay off of other people's apparatus.

  10. moshi... by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    denshi-meiru de kanji ga dekiru to, slashdot de kanji ga dekimasu ka???

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  11. Re:You saw it coming. by abradsn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I an overlord comment in another post recently. Maybe someone is tired of it?

  12. Re:Hmmm by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I can't fucking believe that someone else has named his box as I did mine! The goal was to find unique name and I was sure gobbler is the most stupid available.

    I FAILED IT!

  13. Re:You saw it coming. by soulsteal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your mod points are belong to us.