Re: [DNSOP] unrelated name server name recommendation

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Paul Wouters wrote on 2024-03-04 11:14:
> On Mar 4, 2024, at 14:04, Paul Vixie
> <paul=[e-mail]> wrote:
>> this means a zone will always be reachable through at least one
>> in-zone data path (name server name and associated address
>> records.) the result would be that a full resolver would never have
>> to pause its current lookup while searching for address records
>> matching an out-of-zone name server name.
>> 
>> i think it's a solid recommendation,
> 
> It means every registrant, who doesn’t know about DNS, has to create
> host objects for glue and whenever the ISP changes nameserver names
> (eg gets bought, sold or merges), or IP address, the ISP has to talk
> to the registrant to fix things at their registry. I can promise you
> those in-domain name servers will quickly become very unreliable.

not. the rest of the paragraph you quoted six words from above was:

> i think it's a solid recommendation, but can only be a SHOULD not a
> MUST, both because of the installed base / long tail, and the
> impossibility of enforcing it, and the market needs of parking lots.

it's not a "has to". i expect it either won't be used when a sale is 
possible, or will be removed prior to such sale. i see fujiwara's 
proposal as a way to reduce distributed system complexity for those who 
can behave this way, and strictly as a recommendation.


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P Vixie