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Re: [dnsext] getting people to use new RRTYPEs

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 26 April 2013 01:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] getting people to use new RRTYPEs
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> Nobody is stating that there is no barrier.  Just that the barriers
> are not as big as people keep stating they are.  If your DNS hoster
> doesn't support a type in their web interface complain to them or
> move to someone who does.  Generic support for new types is nearly
> a decade old now.

You must know a different set of DNS hosters than I do.  It's vanishingly
rare to find one that lets you insert random records via the provisioning
software.  You can go looking for ones you like, but good luck.  For the
vast majority of DNS users, it's a feature that they can't install random
crud, not a bug.

This is why I keep saying over and over again that it would be nice if we
made it easier for them to handle new RRTYPEs in a way that makes it 
harder to shoot yourself in the foor than allowing random hex strings.

R's,
John

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