Re: RFC 2782: "Unless and until permitted by future standards"

"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> Fri, 22 June 2001 18:44 UTC

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:16:52 -0000
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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: namedroppers@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: RFC 2782: "Unless and until permitted by future standards"
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Stuart Cheshire writes:
> Are we at that point yet? How many name servers still don't understand 
> SRV?

My widely deployed DNS cache has no special SRV-handling code. The
required DNS standards do not require special SRV-handling code.

The BIND company has recently issued a draft that, among other things,
demands that I add SRV-decompression code. All my users are supposed to
change their software so that you can save a few bytes in SRV records?

I strongly object to the ludicrous notion that every DNS cache should be
upgraded for every new DNS record type that contains a domain name.

---Dan

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Re: RFC 2782: "Unless and until permitted by futu… D. J. Bernstein
Re: RFC 2782: "Unless and until permitted by futu… Andreas Gustafsson