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Subj : The Open Root Server Confederation
To   : Tobias Ernst
From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date : Sun Mar 18 2001 03:21 pm

 TE> if you have set "domain t-online.de", your resolver would search for

I'm currently watching a discussion, elsewere, with someone who doesn't like 
simple and obvious terminology (like "content server"/"proxy server" or "DNS 
client"/"DNS server") when talking about DNS, and insists that anyone who 
doesn't always use the terminology used in the RFCs ("resolver", "stub 
resolver", and so forth) must have no idea about DNS.  I've half a mind to 
chime in and point out the silliness of his position, given the fact that the 
RFC terminology hinders *far* more than it helps.  Witness the perennial 
confusion between "resolver" and "stub resolver".  You yourself are 
experiencing it.  You're actually talking about the latter, not the former.

Personally, I call it the "DNS client library".  It appears to be an adequately 
straightforward description.  

I've not yet managed to confuse anyone by using it, at any rate.  (-:

 ¯ JdeBP ®

--- FleetStreet 1.22 NR
 * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish <yuk!> (1:109/921.70)

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