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Rubber Duck
7th March 2007, 10:07 AM
http://psg.com/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2007/msg00088.html

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2672bis-dname-01

http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dnsext/draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2672bis-dname/draft-ietf-dnsext-rfc2672bis-dname-01-from-00.diff.html
Drewbert
7th March 2007, 07:15 PM
Read:

"Progress is being made".
Rubber Duck
7th March 2007, 07:22 PM
Read:

"Progress is being made".

Having read it several times particularly the second link, I came to the conclusion that they are hell bent on making this thing fly. There does seem to be really serious thought going into to every aspect of this.

I think on balance we have perhaps had an oversimplistic view of this. These guys are looking that the MX records, which means that are not only aiming to get the browsing sorted but also trying to make sure it works for email as well.
Drewbert
7th March 2007, 07:53 PM
This is DNS - backbone of the Internet. Serious thought HAS to go into it. :)

Miss one little problem and then once it's distributed, a hacker could take down the whole system.
blastfromthepast
7th March 2007, 08:19 PM
I could believe old ones not understanding DNAME. Mind you
DNAME has been on standards track for 7 1/2 years now. Any
middlebox being released today should understand DNAME. If
it doesn't it is well and truely *broken*.

I don't believe that any middlebox will have a problem with
CNAME's unles they are trying to enforce a ttl of 0 based
on the presence of DNAME.

Do we have any evidence of any (current) middle-ware being
broken?

Any middle-ware vendor that is looking at the contents of
packets need to make sure they stay current with the protocol
they are examining. I think, that if after, 7 1/2 years
all vendors of middle-ware that examine DNS packets should
be aware of DNAME. If they are not then they are negligent.

We expect vendors of DNS server / clients to track changes /
corrections to the DNS protocol. That one of the reasons
why we publish RFC's, why we listed the RFC's that update
a existing RFC.

I don't see any point in not publishing DNAME's in the
answer section. The barn door has been open for 7 1/2
year now. There is no point in trying to shut it now.

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