Re: [DNSOP] new ANAME draft: draft-hunt-dnsop-aname-00.txt

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 10 April 2017 15:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] new ANAME draft: draft-hunt-dnsop-aname-00.txt
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In article <44ae341f-0424-14c7-2834-656991d402ac@bellis.me.uk> you write:
>> Many TLD registries simply don't permit CNAMEs instead of delegations
>> for their customer domains.
>> 
>> The only one I've heard of that does is .de
>
>My real point being that the parent / child relationship can have policy
>rules in place that prevent things that are technically completely possible.

True, but the most common broken CNAME I see is something like this:

example.com MX 0 mail.example.com
example.com CNAME www.example.com

www.example.com A 1.2.3.4

I agree that if we go ahead with this document, a paragraph pointing
to the ways that CNAMEs don't solve the problem would be helpful.

R's,
John