MS does something in the LDAP backend. It does however show that there is
a need for the functionality.

> On 28 Aug 2018, at 10:04 am, Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote:
> 
> How do they handle that?
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:02 PM Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote:
> Active directory has each domain controller updating its own SRV record
> on the same <qname,qtype,qclass> tuple.  These updates happen at different
> times and need to expire if a domain controller becomes unreachable.
> 
> A different case is when you have multiple prefixes from different
> providers with different lifetimes.  You then end up with multiple AAAA
> records that need to expire at different times.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > On 28 Aug 2018, at 8:34 am, Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry, I realized that I accidentally hit "reply" instead of "reply all."
> > 
> > The issue that I raised with Tom is that for the DNSSD SRP use case, the 
> > only names that receive updates from multiple services are service names 
> > (IOW, not service instance names).   In the case of SRP, PTR RRs in service 
> > names always point to service instance names, which are per-service, and 
> > hence can be counted on to expire on a single schedule.   So for the use 
> > case of SRP, the easiest way to handle deleting service name PTR RRs is to 
> > take advantage of the semantics of DNSSD: when a service instance SRV 
> > record expires, also delete the PTR RR on the service name that points to 
> > it.
> > 
> > The reason I bring this up is that it's the most complicated use case I 
> > know of.   Is there some other use case where we expect more than one DNS 
> > Update client to be updating RRs of the same type on the same name?   How 
> > would this even work without SRP semantics?   If this is not expected, then 
> > any complexity in the timeout RR that's present only to support that use 
> > case is unnecessary.
> > 
> > This is what has been motivating my questions about use cases.   I'm sorry 
> > I didn't make that clear earlier.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742              INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
> 

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