Hadmut Danisch <hadmut(_at_)danisch(_dot_)de> wrote:
By far the most domains (at least in Germany) are domains of
private people or small to medium size companies and organizations
which don't have a clue about DNS details, they are more or less
consumers of ISP services. Very few domain "admins" are able to
write a zone file. You have to give them a neat and easy user
interface, either some windows program or a web interface.
Most such systems either:
a) have a previously defined MX for the domain, which the user can't change
or
b) allow the users to add/edit MX's via the web interface.
Both methods permit automated addition of a subset of MARID records.
This means that most of those users won't even know if MARID is being
deployed. With 100x more domains than MX's, this kind of solution is
the *only* one which is relevant.
Design the protocol for those who need to handle
tens and hundreds of thousands domains automatedly
and to provide a web interface.
I agree. If you have 100 domains for one MX, it doesn't make much
sense to administer those domains by hand.
Alan DeKok.