Re: [DNSOP] SVCB without A/AAAA records at the service name

[Shane Kerr <[e-mail]>]

Martin,

On 15/01/2021 00.43, Martin Thomson wrote:
> As requested (I'm not engaged here enough to understand the terms of engagement, so my apologies for using an interaction form I'm accustomed to), moving discussion from https://github.com/MikeBishop/dns-alt-svc/issues/287 to here:
> 
> The SVCB draft basically mandates a fallback to A/AAAA.  I think that this is not universal and that this should instead be made an option.
> 
> For HTTP, the fallback is necessary.  For a new protocol, a fallback could be undesirable.  Especially if you want to deploy that protocol using a service name on which you have already deployed HTTP.  If you don't want your HTTP servers getting connection attempts for the new protocol, the fallback is more nuisance than useful.

This is an interesting observation.

Certainly with the MX fallback to A records sometimes SMTP delivery is 
attempted (or made!) to the wrong server. So we know that this happens.

Cheers,

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Shane