Keith Moore wrote:
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I could certainly make a case for some apps to have their own naming
systems and their own name-to-address lookup mechanisms independent of
DNS, or more generally, for alternate means of mapping resource names
(say URNs) to IP addresses that did not involve DNS names or DNS
queries. But it's difficult to believe that such apps would
not employ
DNS names at all - if nothing else, for initial configuration.
You might almost forget about SMB/CIFS :)
No DNS in there and most people use it daily without even realising it.
Greets,
Jeroen