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Re: RR prefix is not useful

2004-09-04 18:43:54

John R Levine wrote:
If specific nodes do get
overloaded, SPF and Sender-ID both let you use a short record pointing
to a longer record somewhere else as a band-aid.

That's a fine workaround, but even *those* records will get caught by
wildcards.  Wildcards won't work.


I don't see how repeating this claim makes it any more persuasive.  All
the records I know about can use the short pointer band-aid, and it looks
easy enough to have five or six band-aid records and still fit in a UDP
packet.  What am I missing?  I realize that a hundred TXT records won't
fit, but I don't see more than about four TXT record applications showing
up any time soon.


If Sender-ID sucessfully uses a combination of TXT records and new RR type, then other new protocols may follow the same advice. That can quickly add up.

Yakov


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