Re: [DNSOP] Fundamental ANAME problems

Thomas

Thanks for the analysis.   It's a good data point.

And the Nameserver usage is useful - from a quick view of the graph if one
adds Cloudflare + GoDaddy is approx 60% of the nameservers.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 6:59 AM Thomas Peterson <hidinginthebbc@gmail.com>
wrote:

> To hopefully awaken and further inform the discussion around the ANAME and
> HTTP draft specifications that have been put forward, I've done some
> further analysis across the Alexa top 1 million domains - my initial
> findings are available at https://thpts.github.io/a_or_cname/ .
>
> A brief summary of what I have found across the entire dataset:
>
> * 51% of www records return an A record
> * 47% of www records return a CNAME
>   * 64% of those point www back to apex (i.e. www.example.com. IN CNAME
> example.com.)
> * 17 www records are DNAME
>
> Any feedback, corrections, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 10:22, Thomas Peterson <hidinginthebbc@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> *To: *<dnsop@ietf.org>
>> *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.
>>
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