I kind of agree it's the long way around. The problem it gets around is recursives not returning Additional, which has been noted as being very common.
But you are correct that returning the "other" address in additional could be done, probably without breaking existing recursives. -- Michael Sheldon On June 29, 2018 9:38:32 AM MST, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Michael Sheldon wrote: >> Breaking this out of the ANAME discussion, since it has wider use. >> >> I've been thinking on this one. If I was to create a record, I'd set >> aside a byte or two at the beginning to denote family, but I'm just >> paranoid and OCD that way. > >that seems like the long way around. > >for QTYPE=A, add AAAA as a desired additional data type. > >for QTYPE=AAAA, add A as a desired additional data type. > >advantages: > >no fork-lifts. incremental. opportunistic. no protocol changes. start >today. > >any server which does it will give better time-to-first-ad benchmarks, >and will therefore outcompete any server who doesn't do it in all >bakeoffs. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
