Re: [ietf-smtp] why are we reinventing mta-sts ?

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 07 October 2019 19:08 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] why are we reinventing mta-sts ?
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Keith Moore wrote:
>> There's been some discussion about how an authoritative server
>> might signal that it accepts DoT but it hasn't gotten very far.
>
> Well, maybe this use case will provide an incentive for someone to do the remaining work.

If you can figure out a backward compatible way for authoritative DNS 
servers to signal that they support DoT without a lot of performance loss 
(e.g., a failed probe to port 853 on every query to a non-DoT server), a 
lot of people over in dnsop would like to hear about it.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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