Re: Send-N draft: draft-bellis-enum-send-n-02 published

Duane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.enum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

> If someone can propose a way to use a new RR-type which works with an 
> optimal number of packets (i.e. 1) rather than size of packets then I'm 
> open to it.

You use the new DNS RR in the same way(s) you are proposing to use a
NAPTR record. As I said in my previous email, a new RR type wouldn't
have all the regex/text processing overhead so using binary parsing
would speed things up considerably.

>> DNS Type SENDN ID to be assigned by IANA, packet structure:
>>
>>  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>> |MinDig |MaxDig |
>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>
>> Since the maximum length can only be 15 this fits perfectly inside a
>> nibble :)
> 
> Except for flags to indicate absolute vs relative :)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|MinDig |MaxDig |F|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Anything else?

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Best regards,
 Duane
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