Ray Bellis <r...@bellis.me.uk> wrote: > On 22/06/2018 19:27, Evan Hunt wrote: > > > Minor clarification here: ANAME doesn't require the authoritative > > server itself to do recursion; it requires it to have access to a > > reursive server. > > Even that though requires that the authoritative server be capable of > waiting for an asynchronously retrieved value before it can respond. > > For some authoritative servers that might require a substantial redesign.
That isn't required if the ANAME target records are fetched/updated by an out-of-band provisioning process. A server will want to do it this way if its query rate is bigger than the number of ANAME targetss divided by their TTLs. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ West Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger: Variable 3 or 4, occasionally northeasterly 5 at first in Cromarty and Forth. Slight. Fog patches developing. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop