Re: Beating an Old Horse, but....

Mark Johnson <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:00:30 -0500
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2010/10/4 Colm MacC=E1rthaigh <[email protected]>

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> A preprocessor wouldn't do. The name-server would need to support EDNS0,
> and the smarts to include DS and RRSIG records correctly. Additionally, i=
n
> order to support NSEC and NSEC3 there would need to be a lexicographicall=
y
> ordered index available - a CDB backend won't do. It's a fairly large
> undertaking.
>

For those not familiar with the guts of the various RFCs, could you perhaps
expand on that statement a little?  Note that I'm not disagreeing with you,
I just don't understand the details enough to follow from your premise to
your conclusion.

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2010/10/4 Colm MacC=E1rthaigh <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:colm@=
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eed to support EDNS0, and the smarts to include DS and RRSIG records correc=
tly. Additionally, in order to support NSEC and NSEC3 there would need to b=
e a lexicographically ordered index available - a CDB backend won&#39;t do.=
 It&#39;s a fairly large undertaking.</div>
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FCs, could you perhaps expand on that statement a little?=A0 Note that I&#3=
9;m not disagreeing with you, I just don&#39;t understand the details enoug=
h to follow from your premise to your conclusion. =A0 <br>
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