Re: [DNSOP] [Doh] Resolverless DNS Side Meeting in Montreal

On 7/10/18 11:34 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2018, at 17:22, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
>
>> Basically, you're describing a solution space that could be realized as something like:
>>
>> <img src="https://example.com/img/f.jpg" ip="192.0.2.1">
> Ok, interesting. I would suggest considering a richer scheme that
> accommodates address families and multiple addresses with priorities,
> but I see how that kind of thing would allow a client to do so
> certificate matching and resource retrieval without using the DNS.
>
>> But this is really equivalent in just about every important way to sending the normal <img src="https://example.com/img/f.jpg"> along with a pushed DNS record that indicates that "example.com" resolves to "192.0.2.1" -- and this latter thing is (to my understanding, at least) in scope of the conversation that Patrick is proposing to have.
> My question is why you would involve the DNS at all if all the
> performance-based resolution decisions can be made without it. You're
> just adding cost and complexity without benefit.

In large part because DNS provides "a richer scheme that accommodates 
address families and multiple addresses with priorities".


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Received on Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:03:23 UTC