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John Payne wrote: > On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote: > > utopia would be for DNS to be enhanced in some manner such that the > > 'end > > user ip-address' became visible in the DNS request. > > utopia would have NAT devices which actually updated that in-place > > so an > > authoritive nameserver always authoritively _knew_ the public ip- > > address of > > where the request was coming from. > That would kill all cacheability of DNS. Only if you envision an extension that adds an 'end user IP address' to the query and doesn't add a 'scope of cacheability' to the reply. I admit it's possible that an extension could be bungled that badly, but not likely. DS
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