PTR and DNSSEC

[Bill Manning]

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% On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:41:48AM +0900, Hongbo Shi wrote:
% >   ......why not just using IP address in those normal operations? 
% >   Because domain name has more meanings than IP address? Is that all? :P
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% Again, exactly right.
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% -- 
% Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao

There is one small consideration between using address literals and dns 
labels (e.g.  lump.example.com  vs 172.14.10.11) which is worth noting.
Human Factors.  Most people can "remember" an IPv4 address literal e.g.
192.168.34.221 but it is considerably harder to remember an IPv6 literal,
e.g. fe80::2e0:98ff:fe8e:9449.  So, which would you rather use?

lump.example.com   or   3ffe:805::2e0:98ff:fe8e:9449

(and no points for the folks who want to change thier IPv6 global address
to "cute" things, like  3ffe:805::DEAD:BEEF ... you know who you are ... :)

--bill