Re: [Bundled-domain-names] A lightweight and semantics-free proposal to signal aliasing

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 15 November 2016 05:27 UTC

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:58:10PM +0900, John R Levine wrote:
> Well, OK, now it looks like BNAME, a DNAME that also mirrors itself.

And that, of course, is incompatible with DNSSEC unless you replicate
all the DNSSEC algorithms and (in effect) break all the validation in
the world until everyone upgrades.  Maybe the pain is worth it, but
I'm not especially convinced given the value that this seems to offer.

A

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