[dns-operations] A new (bad) idea for DNS: Distributed DNS Implementation in IpV6

Rodney Joffe rjoffe at centergate.com
Fri Dec 7 14:12:01 UTC 2007


On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:24 AM, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:

> * David Ulevitch wrote:
>> If you can understand it past the abstract, you are better than me.
>
> You did not quote the motivation for this proposal:
>
> There are huge numbers of IP address in IpV6. Moreover, there may be  
> use
> case for multi domain names associated with a sigle IP address. DNS
> implementation currently used may encounter overload traffic in root  
> DNS
> servers.
>
> => The huge IPv6 address space causes a Root DNS breakdown.

I'm sorry, I think I may be misunderstanding. How does the size of the  
IPv6 address space affect the Root DNS ?



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