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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)
In-Reply-To: <200204151939.NAA29707@lab1-36.eng.utah.edu>
Sender: owner-keydist@cafax.se
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

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