On 11/05/2019 15:54, Dave Lawrence wrote:
I have a related question ... is allowing only targets on their own
infrastructure currently a limitation most such providers have?
I don't know about "most", but certainly some. See e.g. the attached
message posted here 2018/06/25.
Ray
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Even that though requires that the authoritative server be capable of
> > waiting for an asynchronously retrieved value before it can respond.
> >
> > For some authoritative servers that might require a substantial redesign.
>
> That isn't required if the ANAME target records are fetched/updated by an
> out-of-band provisioning process. A server will want to do it this way if
> its query rate is bigger than the number of ANAME targetss divided by
> their TTLs.
>
A challenge with that is that many people now use geographic or latency
based DNS routing based on the resolver IP address or EDNS-client-subnet.
That's one of the reasons why Route53's ALIAS works only for targets that
Route53 is authoritative for.
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Colm
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