On Fri, 28 May 2004, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
Maybe a (wild-card) SRV record at the domain level could point to the
definitive _ep record containing the detailed XML.
I could not quite understand if you were joking or if this was serious.
Because dns folk will kill us in the worst way they can think of if we
introduce the notion of *.domain SRV wildcard record.
The only way to go about it is to extend what wildcards mean to allow
something like _a.*.domain.com (see my previous message on this subject
about adding reverse wildcards to zone files for servers to synthesize
records on-the-fly), and I've been told privately its possible but it'll
take around 5 years for this to go through draft, wg discussion, ietf
standard process and then some more time for upgrading software until
everyone can support it.
It does seem however that NAPTR records were crated in part to point to
correct SRV entry when wildcard or similar functionality is desired
and that dns folks have little less problems about overloading them
and using for different applications.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net