Re: To address or NAT to address?

[Cary FitzGerald <caryfitz at cisco.com>]

Christian:

Is this something that you think is an inherent flaw in DNS?  Will this new class
of servers be less susceptible to congestion?

Cary.

Christian Huitema wrote:

> At 10:49 PM 11/30/99 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
>
> >note also that DNS is often slow, and seems less reliable than IP.
> >by increasing the reliance on DNS you increase the probability of failure.
>
> Data point: out of 40,000 random DNS requests logged on my work station
> over the last year, 20% underwent at least one retransmission, resulting in
> service times larger than 2 seconds. The average packet loss rate on the
> regular IP service only explain about half of these retransmissions, which
> makes me suspect that a lot of additional losses are caused by congested
> DNS servers. Increasing our reliance on the DNS is definitely not a good idea.
> -- Christian Huitema