On 06/11/2018 17:17, Tim Wicinski wrote:
In doing some digging through my data, I have instances which I have an
apex of a zone, sub zone, etc that are not HTTP but actually a dynamic
database endpoint.
I also have solid number of instances where the apex is used mainly as
an API endpoint, that serves not HTTP web content.
I think you're expressing a similar concern to those that Wes expressed
at the mic.
However, if there was also an HTTP endpoint on that domain apex, how
would you distinguish it from the non-HTTP one? Clients don't connect
to "hosts", they connect to "services" on those hosts.
Recalling Mark's message from last night which indirectly referenced RFC
5507:
People ... want a pointer to a server for a service at the apex.
CNAME provided a pointer to a server when the prefix was www.
This can be done a number of ways.
1) Prefix + name in rdata.
2) Service specific type + name in rdata > 3) Generic type + service and name
in rdata.
#1 is what SRV does, but HTTP has issues with that
#2 is what my proposed HTTP record does
#3 is what SPF etc uses - TXT records with a prefix in the RDATA
These methods are not mutually exclusive - a prefixed SRV record can
co-exist with an SPF TXT record and an HTTP (or other record) all at the
same point in the DNS.
Turning my proposal into a supposedly "future proof" RR type as was
suggested yesterday that covers non-HTTP "future services" won't work
unless it uses a service prefix (#1) or something else in the RDATA
(subtyping, #3) to identify the service.
Ray
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