It appears that Brian Dickson <brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com> said: >I said you weren't going to like it.
No disagreement there. >I think it should be taken as a safe assumption, that for the vast majority >of end users, they will either be using some kind of UI (good, bad, or >ugly) that is (eventually) aware of the relevant RRTYPE(s), or using one or >more tools that do validation of the zone file (as part of the process of >adding new records), or using software for serving the zone(s) which does >the necessary checks as part of the start-up or zone-loading process (and >prevents illegal stuff, including things like "CNAME and other RRTYPE at >same owner name", or "Multiple CNAMEs at same owner name". Perhaps, or in a lot of cases, the web hosting provider gives the customer the DNS records to copy and paste into their DNS provider's console. This tells us that in practice, any sort of complex master file format is a waste of effort. If the users are going to copy and paste, they might as well copy a base64 blob and not worry about making it easy to read. The wire format can be the same as what it is now. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
