On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote:

> On Monday, October 19, 2015 11:32:27 Tony Finch wrote:
> > Mukund Sivaraman <m...@isc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > ISC is implementing a zone catalog synchronization method in BIND. This
> > > is the first public draft of various ideas and suggestions that were
> > > pooled together and is named "DNS catalog zones".
> >
> > Yay! Why not call the feature "metazones" since that's the term we are
> > familiar with?
>
> there's been enough churn at isc in recent years that probably noone now
> working there remembers metazones.
>
> muks, et al, see: <http://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/mz.pdf>.
>
> > I recently hacked together a crappy version, which is deliberately dumb
> > and BIND-specific. http://dotat.at/prog/nsnotifyd/
> >
> > I didn't implement Vixie-format metazones mainly out of laziness. ...
>
> it's terribly simple. laziness can't be an excuse, it just wasn't that
> difficult! see: <http://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/mz.tgz>.
>
> --
> Paul
>
> After reading both formats, I prefer
http://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/mz.tgz - ordered lists are multiple
records and can be as large a list as needed.  No new record types needed.
If I had seen this before, I probably would have implemented it by now.  It
has been on my wish list for a while.

-- 
Bob Harold
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