On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: > Can you please explain what this "fairly serious damage to the DNS > protocol" is? The message I posted from Olafur and me the other day is supposed to explain this already: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg53776.html For the impatient, one fundamental problem is that the current behaviour uses A records that do not contain host addresses, which is contrary to the definition of an A record. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf