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List:       namedroppers
Subject:    Re: NOTIFY Extension? (was Re: (background) Re: Null-key
From:       Edward Lewis <lewis () tislabs ! com>
Date:       2000-07-28 18:13:02
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At 6:29 PM -0400 7/27/00, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>I think it's perfectly within the spirit of modern DNS for two nameservers to
>participate in a mutually-agreed-upon optional extension to the protocol.
>Isn't
>that what EDNS options were invented for, after all?

I had interpreted your message to mean extending NOTIFY to be a means to
notify (stub) resolvers of updates to servers they had contacted.

Still, outside of grouping name servers into sets begin authoritative for a
zone, DNS is still an open community protocol.  Before attempting to define
an extension to NOTIFY as you are suggesting, we'd need to define a way to
group servers together in a more general set.  (E.g., all the servers
running in my network - regardless of zone.)

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