Re: [dnsext] URI RRTYPE review - Comments period end Aug 15th

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Mon, 26 July 2010 18:19 UTC

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [dnsext] URI RRTYPE review - Comments period end Aug 15th
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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:14:58 +0200
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* Patrik Fältström:

>> Would it make sense to include an "insert original domain here"
>> placeholder in the target part?  This would help with aliasing.
>
> You talk about a subset of the NAPTR regexp now are you not...
>
> http://cloud-4711.example.com/${domain}/foo/bar
>
> The problem with any such thing is that you immediately end up in a
> discussion on how to encode the '$' that should be in the URI.

If the URI is encoded in UTF-8, you could use \255 as the marker. 8-)

But I can see that this is a problem.