Re: a new RRype instead of send-n NAPTRs
Eleanor McHugh <[email protected]>
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On 23 Jul 2008, at 09:59, Jay Daley wrote: > Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote on 22/07/2008 20:22:03: >> Rubbish. The DNS has never, ever cared about "ownership of labels" >> whatever that means. A client does a lookup and gets a response. It >> doesn't have the slightest interest in who "owns" the label or >> operates the name servers for it. > > I'm sure you know this, but just in case ... in DNS a parent never > makes > an authoritative statement about a child's data. If you have a new RR > Type like this that can apply to any part of DNS then it will allow a > (grand)parent to make an authoritative statement about a > (grand)child's > data. Jay, this is probably pedantry of the worst kind and I apologise in advance, but the RR Type suggested would not be making authoritative statements about the child node's data - it would be making such statements about the child node's very existence. This may or may not be a good thing from an administrative perspective as it's a slippery slope from this kind of meta-data to more generic DNS tree inspection. Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains http://slides.games-with-brains.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanormchugh