From: Rosalia Tungaraza (rltungar@u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 01:57:10 PST
The authors provide an overview of the DNS as it was first invented for
the DARPA Internet. They explain its design and how it evolved into its
present implementation. They also go through the successes and
shortcomings of it. Since, this paper was published in 1988, it is
important to remember that the DNS has changed some more 16 years
afterwards. Basically, what the authors considerd the current
implementation may have evolved some more in the present implementation of
DNS.
The paper points out a number of successes of DNS. One of them is the fact
that now data (files and folders) within the computer could be organized
to suite the need of organizations with various sizes and
complexity.
Apart from the successes, DNS also has some shortcomings one of them being
that it is relatively hard to convert network applications to use it. The
authors argue that it would be ideal if all the applications converting
from HOST.TXT could be recompiled to use the DNS. After that be able to
function properly. Apparently, that doesn't happen due to transient
failure and the fact that access to those naming systems needs to be
integrated into the operating system.
Thus future work could be geared towards improving or even eliminating the
above shortcoming.
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