Joe Abley <joe.ab...@icann.org> wrote: > > If there was a possible solution where a customer device could > auto-register a name using dynamic DNS, how would it know what > nameservers to send the UPDATE messages to? Extract the MNAME from the > closest-enclosing SOA? How do you find the closest-enclosing SOA, > bearing in mind that the address concerned might previously have been > used by someone else, and hence the blah.blah.ip6.arpa owner name might > already exist?
Just query for the SOA at the full RDNS name, and the name server will return the zone apex name and SOA record in the authority section of its reply (or possibly in the answer section though that's unlikely). http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-andrews-dnsext-soa-discovery Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
