Hi,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:12:02PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> The zonelet system is quite simple in many ways, and I can appreciate
> why it was chosen back in the day. However, it is pull-based, and so
> delegation information takes time to propagate. In the event of an
> error, it simila
Dear DNS working group,
Shane's explanation of the zonelet exchange system is correct. This
system was adopted by the RIRs in the early days of resource transfers.
The RIR with the majority of address space in a given IPv4 XXX/8 of
address space is responsible for running the corresponding
XXX.in-
Shane Kerr wrote:
>
> DNAME could be used, but it would involve an extra lookup for
> resolvers, right?
Yes, and it would also require a change of name for the delegated zones
which I suspect would be a bigger problem in practice :-)
There's some discussion and examples of using DNAME for revers
