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Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-24 20:14:15

In message <20110724193230(_dot_)GE22405(_at_)1wt(_dot_)eu>, Willy Tarreau 
writes:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:02:59PM +0200, I=F1aki Baz Castillo wrote:
2011/7/24 Willy Tarreau <w(_at_)1wt(_dot_)eu>:
But that's not what I meant, I meant that DNS is not the only solution
to resolve host names. WINS, NIS and /etc/hosts are usable too. When I
was a student in 94, we had all our passwords and hostnames in NIS and
no DNS was configured. It worked like a charm. DNS is not something
mandatory at all for many protocols. It just happens to be the standard
over the public Internet.
=

Ok, I get your point now :)
But, do current webbrosers resolve names using anything but DNS A?
(well, I know that they use /etc/hosts). Anyhow, WINS / NIS /etc/hosts
and such stuff just maps a hostname into a single IP. It's the
equivalent of a DNS A resource record. Think about locating a mail
server (MX is required), you need a DNS server.

... or a static entry (the "Smart Relay host" entry you see in on the DS
line in sendmail.cf). That's the case of any mail client in a campus, they
don't use DNS to send outgoing mail. And even within the mail relays and
servers, it's quite common to have a relaydomains file to map domains to
servers.

Willy

But the Smart Relay host uses MX records.  The Smart Relay host should
be seen as the same as a HTTP proxy.
 
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