Re: Site Finder

[william+nanog () hq dreamhost com (Will Yardley)]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:08:41PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
 
> I've been thinking that there should be a new type of
> record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as
> MX only applies to smtp.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what SRV records
(rfc2782) are intended for. They're not widely impemented by client
applications, however.

> This would allow anyone to add their own wildcard entries for their
> own redirect services (eg: aol and microsoft could run their own on their
> own nameservers) without impacting the alternate applications.

I think you'd still have the issue of an NXDOMAIN not being returned;
i.e., if there's a wildcard, you won't get an NXDOMAIN response if
there's no A but there is some other record.

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