On 2013-03-05, at 15:01, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Joe Abley wrote: > >> I presume this has already come up, and there are good reasons why the >> apparent lexical flexibility in what I'm about to suggest are swamped by a >> sea of vicious snakes, but if the goal is "transmitting general information >> to the parent which in some cases they might care about" why not think about >> a more general RRType of the form >> >> ; zone cut >> example.com. IN SOA ... >> ; >> example.com. IN PARENT DS parental-hints.example.com. example.com. >> example.com. IN PARENT A ns1.example.com. ns1.example.com. > > I'm very nervous about such a fundamental zone syntax change. It's going > to take forever for zone tools to take up on this.
Every new RR is a zone syntax change. > It would be better to use a non-IN class PARENT > > example.com. PARENT DS parental-hints.example.com. example.com. If the record is not in the same class, then it's not in the same zone. That route takes us back to Vixie metazones. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
