Re: To address or NAT to address?

[David R. Conrad]

Cary,

> Is this something that you think is an inherent flaw in DNS?  

Inherent flaw in the DNS: probably not.  Inherent flaws in implementations of
DNS (including, of course, ISC's BIND) and things in front of the DNS:
probably.  It is far too easy to do the wrong thing.

And if this is true today, just wait -- DNSSEC and IPv6-related RRs create
entire new universes of "interesting" configuration options with some _really_
fun interactions.

> Will this new class
> of servers be less susceptible to congestion?

I am a bit skeptical that congestion is the problem.  I suspect
misconfiguration (lame servers, bad ACLs, broken firewall rules, etc.) is a
more likely cause that results in retransmissions.  

Rgds,
-drc