Re: [DNSOP] abandoning ANAME and standardizing CNAME at apex

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 22 June 2018 19:18 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] abandoning ANAME and standardizing CNAME at apex
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Evan Hunt wrote:
>> specified version of ANAME, and it avoids the ANAME ugliness of making
>> authoritative servers do recursive lookups.
>
> Minor clarification here: ANAME doesn't require the authoritative server
> itself to do recursion; it requires it to have access to a reursive
> server.

I suppose, but that seems to me a distinction without a difference. 
Either way we end up importing all of the failure modes of a recursive 
server into an authoritative one.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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