Neither. There were additional data rules to mostly prevent a second lookup, and even in those days, browsers cached hostname to address mappings.
Browsers didn't adopt because srv didn't solve geo or topology optimization. For a design change of this size, more payback was needed. -- Paul Vixie ----- Original Message ----- From: David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> Sent: 2018-06-19 - 18:44 To: Ray Bellis <r...@bellis.me.uk> Subject: Re: [DNSOP] abandoning ANAME and standardizing CNAME at apex > On Jun 19, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Ray Bellis <r...@bellis.me.uk> wrote: >> AIUI, a large part of the supposed issue with SRV was the inertia of the >> installed base of browsers that wouldn't know how to access them. > > I thought the more fundamental problem was the additional latency caused by > the second lookup since SRV specified domain names as targets. > > But maybe I’m misremembering. > > Regads, > -drc > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
