Re: [DNSOP] Fundamental ANAME problems

Thomas Peterson <hidinginthebbc@gmail.com> Tue, 06 November 2018 10:22 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:22:32 +0000
From: Thomas Peterson <hidinginthebbc@gmail.com>
To: Olli Vanhoja <olli@zeit.co>, dnsop@ietf.org
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That may be the case from your own (presumably anecdotal) experience, however I took the Alexa top 1 million websites and queried for A* and CNAME against the www records for the top 10 000 domains. What I found is that approximately 44% returned CNAME records, 56% returning A records.

 

Code is https://gist.github.com/thpts/eb5cec361867170a0ffd6ede136c6649 here if anyone wishes to look.

 

Regards

 

* I realise that I could have added AAAA. My presumption is that the top 10k websites are not v6 only and at least have an A record in place.

 

From: DNSOP <dnsop-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of Olli Vanhoja <olli@zeit.co>
Date: Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 08:24
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Fundamental ANAME problems

 

In fact if you look at the DNS records some big Internet companies

they rarely use CNAMEs for www but instead you'll see an A record, that might

be even backed by a proprietary ANAME solution.