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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. Re:naming conventions by ultrapenguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Internet explorer can also auto-add www. + .com if you press ctrl+enter while typing the url.
    so google + ctrl/enter gives you what you want.
    This also seems to depend on language settings - pressing ctrl+enter with regional settings set to "japan" will prepend www. and append .co.jp

    I think MYIE2 has different modifiers, ctrl+enter adds .com, shift-enter adds .net, etc.

  2. Really? by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

    So whitehouse ctrl+enter...?

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  3. It's the politics, not the technology by BritGeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the main point of the article is interesting, the rather depressing part - about the politics of the ITU, ICANN, etc. - is that unless we can get these oafs to work together, we are totally hosed. Having witnessed some of the machinations that goes on in at least a couple of these groups, I despair of whether we will get anything rational out of all of this. (I would much, much rather see sausages being made, than see these groups "working' again...)

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  4. How about fixing bind 9 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Let's see...
    • rrset-order is still broken.
    • GSS-TSIG support is still missing.
    • Strange multi-threading bugs still exist
    • Awful security history isn't behind it yet.
    Oddly enough, the expensive Nominum commercial product has all these things fixed and BIND does not, even though ISC and Nominum are the same set of folks, in the same building.

    Does this sound like bullshit to you ? If so, see the following:

    • Read the bottom parts of this and the links at the bottom of this
    • Nominum/ISC relationship described here
    Of course, the trouble is that there's not many alternatives. DJBDNS is stable, but missing features and has an odd "semi-open-source" license. ( Also, if you read some of the links, Dan's a really cranky source of support :) PowerDNS is promising, but just got recursion.

    AAARRGGHH.