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Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

Matthijs Mekking <matthijs@pletterpet.nl> Fri, 09 November 2018 09:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME
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On 11/9/18 1:57 AM, Ray Bellis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/11/2018 07:14, Tony Finch wrote:
>> But remember: the goal is to make the DNS easier to use for people
>> who don’t know about the restrictions on CNAMEs.
> 
> I'd say the goal is to make the DNS *possible* to use for people who
> don't know about the restrictions on CNAMEs.
> 
> I concede that ANAME perhaps makes that easier than HTTP does, but it 
> does so at the expense of significant complexity in authority servers by 
> still requiring A and AAAA lookups to be somehow "magic", and doesn't 
> fix the architectural problem of lack of a service identifier.

Note that the latest draft of ANAME does not require the lookup to be in 
the authority servers.

Best regards,

Matthijs



> My long-term goal would be to never have an A or AAAA record appear in 
> the DNS other than at the owner name of an actual hostname.
> 
> Ray
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