[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNAME or domain to domain transltion?

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Brad Smith <brad at comstyle.com> wrote:

> On 03/16/15 22:41, Dave Taht wrote:
>
>> I had had a lot of hope for DNAMEs, but they were shot down in the ietf
>> years ago. Vestiges survive in "bind", at least, but I suspect there is
>> little application support.
>>
>> I would not mind an attempt to resurrect them. Naming in the face of
>> being renumbered all the time by various ipv4 and ipv6 providers is a
>> real PITA.
>>
>
> I don't get why you said they were "shot down". The DNAME record type
> is standards track with 2 RFCs issued. Starting as RFC 2672 and updated
> 3 years ago with RFC 6672. As far as I can see they're supported by
> most of the open source authoritative name servers and recursive
> resolvers (BIND, NSD / Unbound, Knot, Yadifa, MaraDNS), commercial
> implementations such as Cisco, Nominum, Microsoft as well as OS
> resolvers.
>


I stand corrected. Do any applications work with DNAME?


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