Re: [Inip-discuss] aliases and classes (was Re: Domain Names)

Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> Thu, 11 February 2016 20:31 UTC

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On 09-Feb-16 18:59, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> But of course, once you put it that way, it's obvious that for classes
> to be really useful they need to be at the beginning of the RR.  So
> it leads us again to the conclusion that classes are not actually
> useful, which doubtless explains why we've ended up with the IN class
> hard-coded all over the place.

seems fundamentally broken.  Has seemed that way to me for a while now.
I know things like this can't be fixed, but ...

avri

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