[jadmin] Wildcard and SRV records (too much subdomains)

[Matthias Wimmer]

Hi Peter!

Peter Saint-Andre schrieb:
> Unfortunately it may make things much more difficult for legitimate
> servers, too. :)

I'd say that requireing to use SRV records would ease using them very
much. Users would not have to think about when they are needed, they
would just get told what records they need and would notice that the
records are false because connections would not work if there are problems.
Having the fallbacks makes it much harder to detect failures in setting
up the records.

> But at least they support SRV. Many DNS providers don't.
> However, I do agree it would be good to phase out the fallbacks, the
> question is when.

I would support having a MUST for SRV records in RFC3920bis, so any
server supporting RFC3920bis would have to have the SRV records. But
maybe we should keep a SHOULD for supporting the A fallback for
resolving external servers in RFC3920bis for now for RFC3920 compatibility.


Matthias

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