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To: Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>
cc: <ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com>, <namedroppers@ops.ietf.org>, <ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:54:03 +0200 (SAST)
In-Reply-To: <2cwv44gmch.fsf@snout.autonomica.se>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary

On 16 Aug 2001, Johan Ihren wrote:
> Many authoritative servers run in non-recursive mode for security
> reasons, which is sound practice.

The information that the authoritative servers would need to perform
AAAA synthesis could conceivably be provided as "glue".  There's no
absolute need for it to be obtained via any sort of recursive query.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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