Subject: Re: [DNSOP] A new appoarch for identifying anycast name server instance

From: Masataka Ohta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:02:06 +0900

Nicholas Weaver wrote:

>> Don't solve a simple problem in such a complex way.
> 
> If it can affect users, it should be testable from the user's system if possible.

The way to solve a complex problem is "divide and conquer".

The obvious point of division is the caching resolver.

You insisting on not to divide the problem but to keep the
problem complex and rely on complicated tools is not
acceptable not even by end users.

>> Professionals use simple tools. That's the only way to solve
>> complex, beyond tool builder's imagination, problems in the
>> real world.
> 
> No, professional tool-builders

I mean professional DNS operators, as here is DNSOP.

> benefit from building a full rich suite of tools which
> combine many tests.

Feel free to have a PROFESSIONALDNSTOOLBUILDERS ML elsewhere.

Rest of lengthy lines are legitimately ignored.

							Masataka Ohta