Re: SRV RR Questions

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>> RFC 2782 does not only specify the SRV RR but also the way applications or
>> libraries are going to use this RR type to locate services. Unfortunately
>> in "The format of the SRV RR" it explicitly requires the first two labels
>> of the owner domain name to start with a '_'.
> yes.  however, it's amendable.  we wanted to make sure that these names
> could not conflict with any naturally occuring names, and leading _ is
> naturally an error condition.  think of _ as the BPV used in DS1 B8SZ
> to signal six 0-bits.

o it would be nice to have a clue to whom you are replying

o as far as the protocol is concerned, names begining with _ are no
  more 'un-natural' than names begining with any other octet

o this is how we create increasing kink

randy


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