Hector Santos wrote:
> Jim Fenton wrote:
>> Hector Santos wrote:
>
>>> What are the problems with this type of logic?
>>
>> Again, the difficulty, if you receive a message from sales.idsg.net, is
>> knowing where to query.  Is it sales._ssp.idsg.net, or
>> _ssp.sales.idsg.net?  More complex domain names will result in more
>> possibilities.
>
> I see.
>
> But why not define it so its always two levels, isdg.net? and let the
> zone define the rest?
But it's not always two levels:  I gave one example for that in
.k12.ca.us, but there's also .co.uk, .edu.au, and too many other
examples to enumerate.  Doug Otis has proposed that a registry of such
names be maintained, which I doubt would be workable, and in any case
wouldn't cover sub-delegation.  And we have already discussed the
problems with associating semantics with zone cuts; there are
administratively separate domains in common zones, and subdomains under
common administration in separate zones.
>
> Maybe a solution would be to use the main domain to obtain a record
> that "instructs" the client to what is the the "main domain?"
>
> Also, if DNS can't handle the representation of complex unions, then
> why not just go to a TXT result syntax that provides a masking concept
> and let the client perform this task all in single line?  Ala SPF-like
> directives?

I'm not sure what you mean here.  Discovery of the TXT record and
retrieval from the right place would still be a problem.

-Jim
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