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

"Peter van Dijk" <peter.van.dijk@powerdns.com> Fri, 31 March 2017 16:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] New draft for ALIAS/ANAME type
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On 31 Mar 2017, at 17:54, Tim Wicinski wrote:

> On 3/31/17 10:33 AM, John Levine wrote:
>
>>
>> Now we're back to the same issue I raised with BULK.  Everyone now 
>> has
>> to carefully check what features are supported by all of their
>> secondary servers, as opposed to now where I don't even know or care
>> what software they use.  Some of us hoped we got over that once 
>> DNSSEC
>> got into the mainstream auth servers.
>>
>
> This is already happening. I can't slave zones between third party 
> vendors if I use any of their specialized features (Such as ALIAS 
> records), let alone any Geo Directional features.  We're way past that 
> now.

Tim, thanks, this is the voice of reality. Our hope is that we can 
reduce this pain by one point by standardising ALIAS/ANAME.

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