Re: [dbound] draft-brotman-rdbd

Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> Thu, 09 May 2019 21:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dbound] draft-brotman-rdbd
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On 5/9/19 10:42 AM, John Levine wrote:
> For over 30 years the only place anyone has used PTR records has been 
> in the rDNS trees under in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa.

I've seen PTRs used outside of in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa.  Particularly 
with RFC 2317 Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation with CNAMEs pointing to 
names outside of in-addr.arpa / ip6.arpa.  Even RFC 2317 has examples 
reconstructing the in-addr sub-domain structure in other domains in ยง 5.2.

> I think that if you try to use them anywhere else, you'll find way too 
> much software that has baked in assumptions that they don't belong there.

I've not suffered through that misfortune myself.

I seem to recall an intriguing use of PTR records for other information. 
  I think it had to do with translating service names to the host 
running said service name without actually altering resolution like a 
CNAME would.

smtp.example.net.   IN   A     192.0.2.34
smtp.example.net.   IN   PTR   host.example.net.
host.example.net.   IN   A     198.51.100.69



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