On Sep 8, 2014, at 21.45, Karsten Bräckelmann <guent...@rudersport.de> wrote:
> Some discussion of the underlying issue. > > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 02:59 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> At the time of the 3.3.2 release, the .club TLD simply didn't exist. It >> has been accepted by IANA just recently. Of course I was conveniently >> using a trunk checkout for testing and kind of shrugged off that TLD in >> question. >> >> FWIW, this is not actually a 3.3.x issue. It's the same with 3.4.0. Yes, >> that is a *recent* TLD addition... *sigh* > > Unlike the util_rb_[23]tld options, the set of valid TLDs is actually > hard-coded. It would not be a problem to make that an option, too. > Which, on the plus side, would make it possible to propagate new TLDs > via sa-update. Not only 3.3.x would benefit from that, but also 3.4.0 > instances. Plus, it would be generally faster anyway. > > There is one down side: A new dependency on Regexp::List [1]. The RE > pre-compile one-time upstart penalty should be negligible. > > The question is: Is it worth it? WILL it be worth it? pardon my possible technical ignorance here - could this potentially be a network test, rather than a list propagated by sa-update? e.g. query dns for existence of delegation? -ben
