On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, 12:23 pm John Levine, <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > > I don't see any reason why that is our problem. > > On my system at least, the only DNS queries that go through nsswitch > are ones starting from calls like getaddrinfo() or gethostbyname(). If > you're interested in MX or SRV or HTTPS or anything other than A and > AAAA records, you're on your own. The switch to .onion doesn't use > nsswitch, but rather something a couple of levels up in a socket > proxy. > > If people want to splice their stuff into this corner of the domain > name space it's up to them to figure out how to make it work.
Said less directly that would be the intent of my proposed sentence or paragraph: "how this works and consequences for other name spaces is not a DNS consideration" but with an element of "... but we're pretty sure there are heaps of problems coming" G >
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