Re: rsync vs. axfr-clarify (was: in support of axfr-clarify)

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

Derek Atkins writes:
> IXFR works within the DNS framework and rsync does not.

More religious nonsense. You still haven't defined ``the DNS protocol'';
if I ask you to define ``the DNS framework,'' are you going to dodge
that too, and start babbling about ``the DNS approach''?

> It's sort of like comparing DNSSec and PGP.  They are completely
> separate ideas, even if they can solve the same sorts of problems.

In fact, there would be quite a few advantages to using PGP signatures
inside DNS: software is already widely available for key generation,
signature generation, and signature verification. Are your religious
views blinding you to this possibility?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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