To:
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
CC:
ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, users@ipv6.org, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
Date:
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:25:41 -0600
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 dns
Randy Bush wrote: > > > I think it was recognized a long time ago that the initial deployment > > of A6 records should be limited to two (or at most 3) levels. The question > > is whether that is enough to avoid the horrors described by Dan Bernstein > > over on IPNG. > > 'clever' people are likely to seriously abuse DNAME and A6. we have already > seen unnecessary and confusing attempted use of DNAME over in the enum wg. > is there any *significant* advantage to them allowing more than one level of > indirection? Probably not.. as I said, I think the interesting feature is the ability to separate the record for a site from the record for an individual host inside the site. But as Perry observed, you can get by without that if you have to. Brian