Re: [DNSOP] Minimum viable ANAME

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Ray Bellis wrote:
>
>
> On 04/11/2018 08:05, Ray Bellis wrote:
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>> AFAIK, BIND does not currently do this.  That said, MarkA has a patch
>> that supports it, so we do know it's possible.
>
> Correction - BIND *does* do this, but only for address records that are
> already in the cache. If the AAAA for the target is in the cache, but
> the A record isn't, that's all you'll get.

that's all we need. it's all we do for MX and NS additional data, too.

> Mark's patch forces BIND to pre-fill the cache with the A and AAAA
> records for the SRV target before replying.

that would be a mistake. we are hitting for average here not power -- 
the behaviour to optimize for is whatever's most common. if the SRV is 
used, the AAAA or A RRsets will be fetched, and thus cached. if the SRV 
is only used once, that caching effort will be wasted. if the SRV is 
used many times, then the dominant use case will be that the additional 
data is found in cache because the client caused this to be so.

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P Vixie