To:
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
John Schnizlein <jschnizl@cisco.com>
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:41:19 -0400
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<5.1.0.14.2.20010910074854.039d7720@mail.amaranth.net>
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Subject:
Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-00.txt
At 08:00 AM 9/10/2001, Daniel Senie wrote: >.. My concern centers around the draft's assumption that there are two types of environments, public and private, and that it is easy to tell the difference. The goal that a DNS client should only get a lookup for addresses it can reach is laudable. If the draft could be improved to handle the situations in which the distinction between public and private is not clear, it should advance. A particular situation to consider is the one in which a site makes some services (therefore hosts) available to partners only. Another is the provision of a set of hosts that are available to a consortium of other sites. These situations occur in nature, and are not easily solved with the classic split DNS. An informational draft on methods to support these situations would be welcome even if we cannot standardize the goal. John