Florian Can you share a link to the ticket or RFE here?
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM Florian Weimer via dns-operations <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Florian Weimer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:52:18 +0200 > Subject: Re: [dns-operations] HTTPS record support > * Viktor Dukhovni: > > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 12:26:44PM +0200, Florian Weimer via dns-operations > > wrote: > > > >> From: Florian Weimer <[email protected]> > >> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:26:44 +0200 > >> Subject: HTTPS record support > >> To: [email protected] > >> > >> I've got an RFE to add HTTPS/SVCB support to glibc's getaddrinfo > >> implementation. > > > > Why? It seems an unnatural layer violation. The IP addressses of a DNS > > name are NOT provided by its HTTPS or SVCB records. IP address lookups > > make sense only *after* a higher layer application API that understands > > whether or not and which of either SVCB or HTTPS records may be > > relevant, processes those records and determines which target IP > > addresses and ports it wants to connect to, and over what transports. > > The getaddrinfo specification and its refinements that make it clear > that this interface is not just there to get the raw address information > out of DNS, but also to perform address sorting based on various > factors, including network topology information. It's not much of a > stretch to include address priority information from DNS as well. > > I'm not saying that we should go down this path, I'm just trying to > explain why I didn't want to close the RFE immediately. > > Thanks, > Florian > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Florian Weimer via dns-operations <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:52:18 +0200 > Subject: Re: [dns-operations] HTTPS record support > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations -- - Andrew "lathama" Latham - _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
