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Re: [DNSOP] New usage for TXT RR type on radar: Kerberos service discovery

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> Tue, 31 May 2016 19:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] New usage for TXT RR type on radar: Kerberos service discovery
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> On May 31, 2016, at 12:13 PM, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
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>> It is a big failure and problem for the Internet that there is no support for unknown resource record types.
> 
> No kidding. The problem isn't with DNS server software like BIND and NSD, which are updated regularly.  The problem is the Web Crudware(tm) that most people use to manage their zones.
> 
> See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dnsextlang/
> 
> I think I have funding to revise and implement this, by the way.

Overall, its the crud ware for configuration not the path.  Unknown record types seem to be well supported from a transport viewpoint.

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