Re: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

Hi Paul Prescod,
> > They already _support_ dereference ... see DDDS.
>
> They don't support dereference on any computer I have access to, nor
> those of most of my customers. I expect that to be the situation into
> the future.

Reasonably recent versions of BIND have everything needed to support 
DDDS (I'm sure Michael Mealing will correct me if I'm wrong). All 
that's needed is client applications which know a little bit more about 
DNS than gethostbyname().

IOW, it's deployed but ignored ... which is a shame IMO.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2002 13:06:31 UTC