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Re: [nfsv4] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-13 10:42:42
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
On 9/12/2011 12:00 PM, Robert Thurlow wrote:
Joe Touch wrote:
We don't want to enumerate all NFS servers in a domain.

That's what SRV records do. If that's not what you want, you should consider
defining a new RR type.

No.... We don't want to enumerate *all* NFSv4 servers in a domain.  We
want to enumerate all NFSv4 domain-root servers in a domain.  Slight
difference.

Now, if we only ever intended to discovery domain-root NFSv4 servers,
then we could just follow RFC2782.  But what if we want to add some
new role like domain-root, but not domain-root, for NFSv4 servers?  I
suppose we could punt on this till then, but it seems unclean to do so
-- it's much cleaner to denote the role of the server ("domain root")
in the RRset name.

Nico
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