Bill(_dot_)Oxley(_at_)cox(_dot_)com wrote:
According to my DNS admin
"Why are you putting all that crap in DNS? The MTA can do that!! Or use
a web page!"
The 'stuff' is to be queried, so the mechanism that must be used is a query
service.
1. An MTA does not provide a query service, so I do not understand suggesting
putting SSP information there. I could make all sorts of guesses about what your
admin has in mind, but none are viable.
2. Using http as the query service employs a rather heavy-weight service (tcp,
http, html) for what is actually a very simple query. In addition, it implies
that those mechanisms are all that are essential, when in fact a reliable query
service has substantially more service requirements. (Small example: operative
word of reliable means redundant with established means of getting to the
alternate copy.) The DNS supplies all that readily. "A web page" does not.
3. What is wrong with putting the information into the DNS?
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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