- From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:35:32 -0800
- To: Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>
- CC: discuss@apps.ietf.org
Edward, Thursday, December 5, 2002, 3:33:31 PM, you wrote: Edward> I'm convinced that had DNS built in features to remotely manage Edward> answers from a cache (which is the crux of the problem - a cache Edward> sitting topologically on a NAT node) and had made error reporting Sounds like you are tripping across the end-to-end myth. Whenever we design a protocol that believes there is a direct interaction between one end-point and the other, we later have to deal with the presence of intermediation. Caches. Firewalls. Whatever. Store-and-forward is not just for layer 3. d/ -- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> TribalWise <http://www.tribalwise.com> t +1.408.246.8253; f +1.408.850.1850
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