Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

> >> Input -P-> DNS server -D-> DNS stub -Q-> Output
> >
> >> P is the provisioning
> >
> > I think you want to break that into the provisioning interface and the data
> > format it produces that the DNS server consumes. (My reason for that is we 
> have
> > a specification for at least such format, with all that implies.)
> I was also going to mention that.  There's a lot of different formats for
> zone file data, with BIND-ish master files being only one of them.
> >> We seem to believe that the "D" part is deployed so that adding new "unknown"
> >> RRTypes is not an issue.
> >
> > I think this is correct, but OTOH someone recently asked about possible issues
> > in this area, and if I remember correctly, received no response.
> Last month I ran into a guy on the dmarc list who complained that
> his server returns NOTIMP in response to queries for SPF records ("because
> it doesn't implement them") and clients were doing odd things.  But it's
> been a long time since I've run into anyone else like that, so I agree,
> it's not an issue.
> >> Problem is then in "P" and "Q".
> >
> > I personally don't see a big problem with "Q", but others clearly do so
> > we need to leave it in.
> I'm not aware of problems, but I don't use Windows which is where the
> problems are supposed to be.
Exactly - neither do I. (Well, OK, I have a Windows laptop at work to handle
the company HR stuff that won't work in anything other than IE, but I try
really, really hard never to use it.)

                                Ned
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