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Re: [rrg] RRG recommendation

From: Danny McPherson <danny at arbor.net>
To: RRG <rrg at irtf.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:46:40 -0700
In-reply-to: <4B02C545.6050700 at tony.li>
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On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Tony Li wrote:

>> Do not depend on DNS to get packet delivered.
> 
> Sorry, we already broke that.  When DNS is down, the net is down.  ;-)

Com'n Tony, that's a little disingenuous (unless you 
were strictly kidding and not just smirking there :-)

The point is that circular dependencies are bad, and a routing 
and forwarding substrate function that relies on DNS reachability 
isn't particularly desirable.

-danny

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