Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-09 Thread Tony Finch
Ray Bellis wrote: > > does so at the expense of significant complexity in authority servers by > still requiring A and lookups to be somehow "magic", That is not the case for the -02 draft. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ an equitable and peaceful international order __

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-09 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME Date: Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:30:41PM -0800 Quoting Paul Vixie (p...@redbarn.org): > i am loath to create per-service record types. that's why SRV. if you really > want every client of a service t

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME vs URI vs NAPTR

2018-11-09 Thread Brian Dickson
Patrik Fältström wrote: > Note changed subject... > > [rest of message cut from reply] There is a major semantic difference in the NAPTR/URI RDATA and how/where it is handled, which is at the HTTP application layer (i.e. 3xx rewriting). This differs from the other 4 RRTYPEs, where only the A/AAA

[DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME vs URI vs NAPTR

2018-11-09 Thread Patrik Fältström
Note changed subject... Sure, I think of course the URI RR is the best thing since sliced bread, but same for each one of the proponents of the other RRs. I think we could look at the various deployment scenarios and demonstrate what design features each one of the RRs have. And with such a des

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-09 Thread Matthijs Mekking
On 11/9/18 1:57 AM, Ray Bellis wrote: On 09/11/2018 07:14, Tony Finch wrote: But remember: the goal is to make the DNS easier to use for people who don’t know about the restrictions on CNAMEs. I'd say the goal is to make the DNS *possible* to use for people who don't know about the restric

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Brian Dickson
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 12:09 PM Paul Vixie wrote: > Brian Dickson wrote: > > Paul Vixie wrote: > i don't love the dnssec implications of this, including proof of > nonwildcard. > I'm not 100% sure, but I think the generic DNSSEC response handling already covers this. If the response does not inc

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Paul Vixie
Brian Dickson wrote: Paul Vixie wrote: ... i regret not adding ANY as an RR type (not just a Q type) back when the DNS was small and i supported 90% of it. what we actually needed is a wildcard on types so that if there's no more-specific type you get thatone, which would

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Brian Dickson
Paul Vixie wrote: > Ray Bellis wrote: > > On 09/11/2018 07:14, Tony Finch wrote: > > But remember: the goal is to make the DNS easier to use for people > who don’t know about the restrictions on CNAMEs. > > I'd say the goal is to make the DNS *possible* to use for people who > don't know about the

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/11/2018 09:30, Paul Vixie wrote: i regret not adding ANY as an RR type (not just a Q type) back when the DNS was small and i supported 90% of it. what we actually needed is a wildcard on types so that if there's no more-specific type you get that one, which would have an rdata of the

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Paul Vixie
Ray Bellis wrote: On 09/11/2018 07:14, Tony Finch wrote: But remember: the goal is to make the DNS easier to use for people who don’t know about the restrictions on CNAMEs. I'd say the goal is to make the DNS *possible* to use for people who don't know about the restrictions on CNAMEs.

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/11/2018 07:14, Tony Finch wrote: But remember: the goal is to make the DNS easier to use for people who don’t know about the restrictions on CNAMEs. I'd say the goal is to make the DNS *possible* to use for people who don't know about the restrictions on CNAMEs. I concede that ANAME pe

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Tony Finch
> On 8 Nov 2018, at 20:13, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> On 9 Nov 2018, at 5:27 am, Tony Finch wrote: >> >> HTTP RRs risk adding a third option, where the web provider has to have >> documentation asking whether the DNS provider supports HTTP RRs and if so >> the site admin needs both these address

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 9 Nov 2018, at 5:27 am, Tony Finch wrote: > > Ray Bellis wrote: >> On 08/11/2018 11:47, Dan York wrote: >> >>> For that reason, wouldn't all the resolvers (or at least an extremely high >>> %) need to be upgraded to support the new record? >> >> They don't _have_ to be, but performance

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Tony Finch
Ray Bellis wrote: > On 08/11/2018 11:47, Dan York wrote: > > > For that reason, wouldn't all the resolvers (or at least an extremely high > > %) need to be upgraded to support the new record? > > They don't _have_ to be, but performance is improved when they are (since only > an upgraded resolver

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-08 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME Date: Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:30:44AM +0700 Quoting Brian Dickson (brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com): > I'm going to start a clean, related thread, to discuss a bunch of > questions, that I think can

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 8 Nov 2018, at 2:30 pm, Brian Dickson > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM Dan York wrote: > Brian, > > DY> Upgrading our DNS infrastructure is VERY difficult. Because it is still > massively distributed and decentralized (even though we do have ongoing > centralization/

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Brian Dickson
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM Dan York wrote: > Brian, > > > On Nov 8, 2018, at 10:30 AM, Brian Dickson < > brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > For new RRtypes, registries, registrars, and their provisioning services > do NOT need to support them; the new types are in the zones only.

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Ray Bellis
On 08/11/2018 11:47, Dan York wrote: For that reason, wouldn't all the resolvers (or at least an extremely high %) need to be upgraded to support the new record? They don't _have_ to be, but performance is improved when they are (since only an upgraded resolver will include the A and

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Dan York
Brian, > On Nov 8, 2018, at 10:30 AM, Brian Dickson > wrote: > > For new RRtypes, registries, registrars, and their provisioning services do > NOT need to support them; the new types are in the zones only. DY> (Experiencing a "DUH!" moment.) Yes, of course. It's zone data so only those enti

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Brian Dickson
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM Dan York wrote: > Brian, > > DY> Upgrading our DNS infrastructure is VERY difficult. Because it is > still massively distributed and decentralized (even though we do have > ongoing centralization/consolidation), getting a new RRTYPE deployed means: > > - upgrading

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Dan York
Brian, > On Nov 8, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Brian Dickson > wrote: > > I'm going to start a clean, related thread, to discuss a bunch of questions, > that I think can help with the ongoing threads. DY> Thank you for doing so. > What we may be forgetting are the USERS of these systems, and the use c

Re: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread p vixie
If additional data is optional, so most resolvers can just pass it through, the DNS techs will say yes but the HTTP techs will say no. - Original Message - From: Brian Dickson Sent: 2018-11-07 - 18:30 To: "dnsop@ietf.org WG" Subject: [DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why&quo

[DNSOP] Root reasons (aka "why") - HTTP vs SRV vs ANAME vs CNAME

2018-11-07 Thread Brian Dickson
I'm going to start a clean, related thread, to discuss a bunch of questions, that I think can help with the ongoing threads. Rationale: I think many of the viewpoints some folks have are skewed by pre-existing familiarity with the protocol, and implementations (including browsers, libraries, stubs