Re: [DNSOP] New draft for ALIAS/ANAME type

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 04 April 2017 17:21 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] New draft for ALIAS/ANAME type
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Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> wrote:
> On 3 April 2017 at 07:55, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> >
> > If you expand ALIAS on the master server like this, I would expect that
> > most of the time the target addresses won't change very frequently, so the
> > IXFR rate should be much less than the ALIAS polling frequency.
>
> I believe that's a faulty assumption.   Here's some data:
>
> [...] During the month of February, [...] an average of 31 changes per zone. [...]

That seems to agree with what I meant, though I probably should have said
"per-zone" somewhere :-)

Tony.
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