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To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 03:28:48 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030429200615.01b9e6a0@mail.amaranth.net>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-01.txt

At 8:58 PM -0400 2003/04/29, Daniel Senie wrote:

>  I agree with you. The only way I see to provide information about
>  the server that provided the response would be to include that
>  information in the additional section of the response. Since the
>  additional section would not normally contain whatever record we
>  might add to express this, we would certainly learn just how
>  liberal servers are in what they receive.

	Hmm.  That's a cool idea -- use the additional section, perhaps 
with a TXT record containing the unique identifier information for 
the particular server in question.

	I like it.  I'm not sure, but I don't think it would require any 
protocol modifications, but we'd definitely want to give it some 
pretty extensive field testing first.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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