On 5/20/2004 3:02 PM, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
So let me get this straight: if MARID defines a new RR type, Windows
will not be able to support it?
People have been dealing with resolver limitations for years and not just
for Windows. In the usual case, they deal with it by embedding their own
resolver into the app that does whatever heavy lifting is needed, while
passing simple calls you can to the native APIs. Even implementors of the
mail-submission and -retrieval SRV records [draft-hall-mail-srv-01.txt]
have run into this problem because SRV is not supported in earlier
versions of the Windows resolver (or in many of the resolvers on several
other platforms for that matter).
Is bundling a resolver lib into your app show-stopping? I mean, that's
really the test for how important this work is: either its more important
than the work required to build a resolver function, or it isn't.
The server part of the problem is a bit more fuzzy but is less difficult
than the client side.
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/