Re: [Acme] Proposal for http challenge: Lookup SRV records before A/AAAA records

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 10 February 2016 14:27 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Michael Wyraz <michael@wyraz.de>
Thread-Topic: [Acme] Proposal for http challenge: Lookup SRV records before A/AAAA records
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Subject: Re: [Acme] Proposal for http challenge: Lookup SRV records before A/AAAA records
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> This doesn't seem like a great idea. ACME should largely behave the same way
that Web clients do. If you want to muck with DNS just use the DNS challenges.

As an individual, not co-chair, I strongly agree with this.