Not at all.
I'm saying that writing a custom DNS client won't work in many customer
installations.
The issue is specific to DNS, not a generic UDP one.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:ehall(_at_)ehsco(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:59 PM
To: Bob Atkinson
Cc: Yakov Shafranovich; IETF MARID WG
Subject: Re: suggested new RRtype experiment
On 5/20/2004 6:59 PM, Bob Atkinson wrote:
Rather, among other things, it is that the host in question may not
actually have the necessary network access that such library would
require. On sucyh hosts, the system's DNS client implementations
work
because they are in fact doing RPC's to remote firewalls, and there
is
no way that a dropped-in sibling library can connect up to same
successfully, since, for starters, the RPC-protocol spoken is
type-specific.
Are you telling me that nobody is allowed to write a network
application
for windows which sends generic UDP traffic?
If the app goes through whatever registration rigamarole you guys
require
then it can send whatever datagrams it needs to, correct?
--
Eric A. Hall
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