Proposal for using NAPTR/URI records

[Nico Williams]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:57:17AM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:17 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
> > My expectation is that URI-aware client will do DNS query for URI 
> > record first
> > and get all the information at once instead of doing 3 separate 
> > queries. Fallback to 'classic' SRV tcp/udp should be done only if no 
> > URI records exist.

Mine is that the *new* clients will do a single type=ANY query for
_kerberos.{_udp, _tcp}.domain.name. and will get all the answers they
need (if using TCP or EDNS0 for their DNS queries).

> MIT has expressed (on a phone call) two concerns with moving URI to 
> the default lookup (with SRV as secondary):
> 1. Additional latency for a protocol which nobody is (yet) using.

There would be no addtional latency for my proposal (type=ANY queries
for a domainname for which there should be only SRV (legacy) and URI
(new) RRs.

(If the _kerberos label is a zone apex there will also be other RRs, and
that could make these lookups marginally slower, but frankly, zone cuts
at that point or the _udp or _tcp labels will tend to slow things down
anyways, and anyways, who will bother doing this?)

> 2. DNS stacks which drop queries for unknown QTYPEs.

type=ANY.

Nico
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