Re: The Endless Journey to IPv6

On 11/12/24 15:21, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

Thus, the "routing" function is handled by DNS instead of routing tables in individual routers.

The routing is done by the router, after it examines the specific field in the http header.  This means it has to go into the packet, into the http header, read the destination and then forward accordingly.  A DNS server cannot do that, as all it does is hand out an address for the given names.  It requires a lookup table on the router, to match a name with an address.