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

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>If these are the premises for ANAME, and its special handling, wouldn't
>it be better to generalise asking for multiple records (eg A + AAAA
>+ ANAME) where ANAME has no special handling on its own? And then do the
>generealised multi-query-at-once using one of the previously suggested
>proposals?

But that doesn't solve the original problem.  Clients ask for an A or
an AAAA record, and that's what they want to get back.  The ANAME is
really just a provisioning hack built into the authoritative server
and, depending on the implementation, maybe the cache.

I suppose they might ask for both A and AAAA but that's a separate
problem, even though it might use a similar mechanism.

R's,
John