Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 dns

[Brian E Carpenter]

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > I think it was recognized a long time ago that the initial deployment
> > of A6 records should be limited to two (or at most 3) levels. The question
> > is whether that is enough to avoid the horrors described by Dan Bernstein
> > over on IPNG.
> 
> 'clever' people are likely to seriously abuse DNAME and A6.  we have already
> seen unnecessary and confusing attempted use of DNAME over in the enum wg.
> is there any *significant* advantage to them allowing more than one level of
> indirection?

Probably not.. as I said, I think the interesting feature is the
ability to separate the record for a site from the record for
an individual host inside the site. But as Perry observed, you can 
get by without that if you have to.

  Brian