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

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Fri, 09 November 2018 00:57 UTC

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

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