On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/12/2011 8:03 AM, Nico Williams wrote: > You're locating the NFS service. You're using that to setup a domainroot. > The former is a DNS SRV issue. The latter is an endhost configuration issue. No. We do not normally locate the NFS service. If you know a server, that's the server hosting the NFS service. This is a distinct concept to "NFS server". And the whole point is to avoid end host configuration, if by end host you mean the *client*. > Microsoft's approach is to basically define a specific pattern to their > FQDNs - using nonstandard syntax - to indicate that the server is a MS > product: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961719.aspx > > I don't agree with this approach; most others who use SRV records use TXT > fields, and RFC 3088 provides a correct example of SRV use for LDAP. I'm uninterested in saying no to plainly working and deployed solutions out of dogmatic inflexibility. Update RFC2782 if you like. >> If it's time to go update RFC2782, well, let's, but let's not hold up >> the rest of the world over it. > > It's up to you if you want to start by redefining SRV records. I'm unwilling to do that because I don't believe we have to. I'm even less willing to use TXT RRs to duplicate SRV RR functionality. Nico -- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf