Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment

Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> Wed, 16 February 2011 04:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>

> But as has often been noted, many protocols such as HTTP and SMTP
> depend on the actual domain name, so nothing the DNS does to make
> stuff "the same" will make variants of a domain name work.
> Considering the number of variants that a name can have, e.g., M^N for
> any name with N characters that have M variants, any approach that
> provisions the HTTP and SMTP servers manually is likely to fail in
> practice, since the various lists of equivalent domains will always
> get out of sync.

And, as has been pointed out in some other venues, and which seems 
applicable here also, some approachs to certain things *depend on trying
a DNS lookup and having it break*.  I'm damned if I can remember what
the canonical example was, but it fell in the general category of 
"please don't make this change to try to 'help' 'the web', cause you'll
break *my* protocol which isn't http".

Cheers,
-- jra