On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:47:24PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > ANAME could just be a regular RRTYPE without any special handling, > meaning "go look there for up to date information on A/AAAA". It could > come along A/AAAA records using one of the existing bitmaps multi-type > query proposals that have been suggested in the last two years.
But, because there are always going to be legacy servers, the client would then need to send an ANAME query, and when it got no answer, send another query for A and AAAA. If clients were willing to do that, then they'd have been willing to use SRV, and we'd have standardized on that long since. Which would've been fine, but browser vendors have had years to do it, and they never have. Apparently, what they want is to send address queries and get redirected answers. And if we can't make them do the smart thing, at least we can give them an interoperable and standards-compliant way to do the dumb thing. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
