Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU> Wed, 26 March 2008 02:37 UTC

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:44 -0700
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:30:27AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00:23AM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> > > Ned Freed wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If the consensus is that better interoperability can be had
> > > > by banning bare AAAA records that's perfectly fine with me.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, I'd like that...
> > > 
> > > >> Clarity can be established and interoperability _improved_ 
> > > >> by limiting discovery to just A and MX records.  Perhaps a
> > > >> note might be included that at some point in the future MX
> > > >> records may become required.
> > >  
> > > > Again, I have no problem with this approach if that's what
> > > > the consensus is.
> > > 
> > > ...and that, too.  
> > 
> > 	so what is supposed to happen when I remove all
> > 	"A" RR's from my zones?
> 
> 	The same thing that happens today with zones that don't
> 	have A records.  You use MX records to refer to machines
> 	that have address (A and/or AAAA) records.


	er...  what about zones w/ A & AAAA rr's and no MX's?
	when I pull the A rr's, you are telling me that SMTP
	stops working?  That is so broken.

--bill

> 
> 	Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org

-- 
--bill

Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
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