In message <6E881F81-991D-4E98-932C-65CB49B02783(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pat
rik_F=E4ltstr=F6m?= writes:
On 31 maj 2010, at 08.03, Mark Andrews wrote:
MTAs should never search. MX records are absolute (explict or
implicit).
Agree.
MSAs should only search to qualify unqualified domains in user
submitted data.
I agree with this as well.
These are just two details that have not been clear in some drafty-draft =
documents I have seen on "SMTP and IPv6".
Just curious. What percentage addresses in your address book are
not fully qualified. I know I gave up on unqualified address back
in the early '90s. Also are all the search element served locally
or do you need to do a remote lookup for them?
I really think we should "get rid of" the search path in resolvers.
And it shouldn't be exponential growth. Double maybe.
If you have search path, and then choice of IPv4 and IPv6 transport for =
DNS, and then A and AAAA to look up for the MTA you connect to, that at =
least multiplies the number of choices.
The best is double. Then in some cases it is worse.
You have qualification searchs.
MX (1 + search), A (1 + search), AAAA (1 + search)
Delivery (A + AAAA) * MX targets (implict or explict). If it's
more than that then the MTA is broken and is a security incident
waiting to happen.
It all works pretty well if the client have IPv4 and IPv6 _AND_ both
works. But to some degree the functionality and user experience goes
down if either of IPv4 or IPv6 have problems.
SMTP is store and forward. Your MSA should just accept and queue.
The actual delivery should be done in the background or do you have
debugging turned on where you are trying to see the delivery step?
Anyway, the biggest problem is still, as you say, that we do not really =
know...
For me it worked better than dual stack, when accessing things that =
was
reachable over IPv6. But that was with my OS (MacOSX) that have
relatively good IPv6 support.
And problems with its resolver trying to be too smart. :-)
You bet!
Patrik
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