To:
Walt Howard <howard@eng.utah.edu>
Cc:
keydist@cafax.se
From:
Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se>
Date:
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:57:53 +0200 (CEST)
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<200204151939.NAA29707@lab1-36.eng.utah.edu>
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Subject:
Re: Let's assume DNS is involved
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Walt Howard wrote: > I read the draft-daigle-napstr-00.txt and thought it looked interesting, > so I implemented NAPTR RRs pointing to the SRV RRs in a domain for > which I do the DNS records. A problem leaped out which I must mention: > this solution does not remove the magic names; instead it moves them > from the record label to the fourth item of RDATA. The names are still > magic in the sense that the resolving software must have some prior > knowledge of what those names should be in order to find the right one. no, the magic name is removed and exchanged for a service name which, IMHO, is much cleaner. the owner name of the APPKEY in my example is specified using the NAPTR. the NAPTR is found using the service name. jakob -- Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se> Network Analyst Phone: +46 31 701 42 13, +46 70 595 07 94 Carlstedt Research & Technology