Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (Bill Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: DNS Query server? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 90 07:01:41 GMT References: <9002090116.AA02081@bel.isi.edu> <3184@munnari.oz.au> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: None. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: kre@cs.mu.oz.au's message of 15 Feb 90 18:03:26 GMT In article <3184@munnari.oz.au> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: Isn't that a little harsh, IEN-116 is a trivial protocol to implement, is very stable, and is ideal for proms, etc. Not really; I've seen a simple DNS resolver which is under 1K of object code (not counting a very primitive UDP/IP implementation). It *does* depend on knowing the address of another server which will support queries with "recursion desired" set, but I suspect that the IEN116 protocol has a similar requirement. This isn't a full resolver -- it only knows how to translate hostnames to addresses, but that's probably enough in most cases. - Bill -- Henry Spencer is so much of a | Bill Sommerfeld at MIT/Project Athena minimalist that I often forget | sommerfeld@mit.edu he's there - anonymous |