The configurations change all the time, I am sorry, but your argument doesn’t have a technical merit.
We really do need to start removing obsolete stuff from DNS, and I believe this is a good start. Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý — ISC > On 23 Mar 2018, at 18:39, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > > > Ondřej Surý wrote: >> What’s so wrong of using TYPExxx for these if you absolutely need >> them to run the ancient technology while at the same time running the >> latest version of BIND (or your favorite DNS server)? > > because i am loathe to break existing working configurations. when isc > changed the value of allow-query to be LAN only, it took years to do as > safely as we knew how, and even so there was some breakage. > >> Your argument feels like strawman to me. And I am not the one sitting >> on a pile of passive DNS data, so I can’t pull the numbers... > > we don't see a lot of intranet data, so that would not be dispositive. > however, i urge you to reconsider your strawman-ish feelings. we are forever > rebuilding the airplane in flight. the long tail matters. > >> We are not taking the ability to put random TYPEnnn records into the >> zone, we are just saying the tools just won’t understand them >> anymore. Again nothing is going to break on the day one. > > as long as people know what they're doing and are willing to convert their > zones using tools unspecified, that's true. but you are chewing on the > narrowest part of bert's camel here, at some risk, little gain. > > -- > P Vixie > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
