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Re: Designing and Allocating a new RR type

2004-06-24 10:45:09

Douglas Otis wrote:

DNS was never designed to return comprehensive answers to simple
queries.  The query should be specific with the response equally
specific.  If a broad and comprehensive answer is needed, then use an
SRV record to point to a port on an HTTP server.  Shifting processing to
the sender with an SRV mechanism is safer and more extensible.


 * sigh *


That's why I proposed RMX++ which does exactly that. For
exactly those reasons. Almost no resonance yet.

Hadmut