>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > It's not a requirement if the ONLY thing you want clients
> > to know about the DNS is the addresses of nameservers. In
> > the real world there are lots of organisations that want
> > to push other configuration details out. The proposals
> > you are competing with can support this.
>
> Well... It's 'possible' to pass a search list to the resolvers as part of
> a startup negotiation, it's just not necessary, and it may even be
> determined as undesirable after some more thinking.
No one is saying you have to supply the information. What I am
saying is that the *ability* to do this is crucial in some
environments.
I don't want my ISP to supply a search path. I also don't
want my ISP to depend upon that search path in there HTML
documents.
I have also been a network adminstator in a business. In that
envirionment setting search lists is important.
> In particular, if the logic focuses on choosing a candidate server versus
> using any available server, then the server part of the algorithm can
> require "return a list of SOAs for which you are authoritative", and the
> client algorithm can allow the resolver to use the owner names of the SOAs
> as the search list. Extending this logic a bit, it's feasible that any
> particular implementation could provide a configuration ~directive that
> filtered the domains which the server should return, thereby providing a
> way for managers to control the search list array in use by the clients.
>
> Negotiation versus queries isn't the focus of the current WKA proposal, of
> course, but as I already said, I think that's the second necessary change
> (switching to multicast is the first; anycast is a non-starter).
>
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> Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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