Re: [DNSOP] The DNSOP WG has placed draft-woodworth-bulk-rr in state "Candidate for WG Adoption"

["Peter van Dijk" <[e-mail]>]

Hello John,

On 20 Jul 2017, at 3:17, Woodworth, John R wrote:

> Although in practice the name would likely be shorter and potentially
> include other customer attributes,
> say acmewabbit-21f-5bff-fec3-ab9d.example.com
>
>    1. This shows the owner is example.com, customer acmewabbit
>    2. Reverse lookups are helpful for tools (e.g. traceroute)
>       and logs.

1 and 2 could be covered with a wildcard PTR, as I think Tony Finch 
pointed out.

> Forget for a moment about IPv6.  This draft makes $GENERATE more
> memory efficient, scales bigger, stays intact through AXFR's
> and yes -it makes some nameservers (authoritative) work a bit more
> as a trade-off.

One could make $GENERATE more efficient without actually implementing 
the BULK RR, by taking your pattern matching logic and implementing it 
inside the name server. Of course, this makes generating the NSEC/NSEC3 
chain much harder than it is with today’s $GENERATE implementations 
that actually generate all the names.

A very interesting puzzle would be implementing BULK support, based on 
the pattern matching in the draft, -without- doing NSEC(3) white/black 
lies - i.e. generating the widest possible NSEC instead of the narrowest 
one. For NSEC3 I suspect this is not feasible.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/