Re: [DNSOP] New draft for ALIAS/ANAME type

["Peter van Dijk" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dan,

On 3 Apr 2017, at 21:40, Dan York wrote:

> I very much like the idea of this draft, given that I use multiple DNS 
> hosting providers who all have their own unique (and proprietary) way 
> of doing "CNAME flattening at the apex". I think the reality of 
> today's user experience with domain names is that we are increasingly 
> dropping the "www" or any other kind of second-level domain. So we 
> want to talk about our sites as "example.com<http://example.com>" ... 
> but as the publisher we want to use CDNs, load balancers and other 
> systems that need us to use a CNAME. A standardized way of doing this 
> would be helpful.

Thank you for your kind words. As I said in another post indeed, I hope 
this draft (assuming it becomes an RFC) will remove one point of 
suffering for those who use multiple DNS providers.

> One comment...
>
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 7:13 PM, Evan Hunt 
> <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> >
> > (Incidentally, I'm working on a somewhat more ambitious ANAME draft 
> with
> > Peter van Dijk and Anthony Eden, who has kindly agreed to merge his 
> efforts
> > with ours. I expect to post it in a few days, stay tuned.)
>
> ... I think it would be helpful for the new draft to have a few 
> examples of what the RR would look like in a zone file.  (This was the 
> one component I found missing from Anthony's ALIAS draft.)

Our current draft-draft does not have that yet but I fully agree. I find 
many published RFCs are lacking in examples and test vectors, and I’ll 
make sure we do better on this.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/