>> why all that complexity? if some remote device (iot thingy) wants 'dns over
>>> http' why would it not (as a first order answer) just ask
>>> /cgi-bin/dnslookup for 'srv:foo.com' ? (returned answer in txt, json,
>>> etc...)

>> Security in IoT is close to an oxymoron, but my device would like to check
>> the signature before trusting what your proxy says.
>>
>ok, I'm sure your device has some agreement with the cooperating http(s)
>server though, right? it can get the text / bas64 rrsig content just as
>easily as if it were doing udp/dns. (it should probably also check ssl
>certificates/etc to make sure traffic did not get wonked in flight)

I don't understand what problem this solves.  If you're going to
provide all of the DNS results in a gooped up form, why not just
provide them in a native form and let the client deal with it?

R's,
John

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