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Re: [dnsext] loads of TXT records for fun and profit

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Fri, 03 May 2013 14:03 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
Thread-Topic: [dnsext] loads of TXT records for fun and profit
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On May 3, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com<mailto:hallam@gmail.com>> wrote:
Now what could make the whole process a lot easier would be to allocate a band of DNS RR codes for records that would all have TXT syntax. That would allow BIND etc. to make one change to support the new syntax. Alternatively we could extend the handling of unknown RR syntax so that there was a string presentation option.

I see some benefit in that if in fact TXT is the right format for storing the things that would get stored in these records.   However, the point has been made with respect to SPF that it would have been better had it not been just a text record.   I don't know whether this argument is correct or not, but if it is correct, making it easy to put in TXT records and hard to put in anything else is probably going to make things worse, not better.

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