RE: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Technical issues encountered by a k 12 site

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

--On Wednesday, October 08, 2003 18:27 -0400 "Hollenbeck, Scott" 
<shollenbeck@verisign.com> wrote:

> No, I was asking about a larger issue that's related to the issue you
> described.  The message I responded to mentioned home-grown code that had
> a problem.  I asked about the thought process that went into writing that
> code because it was reported to have experienced a problem with a
> long-standing feature of the DNS protocol.  Given that there's an effort
> underway in the IETF to clarify RFC 1034's description of wildcard
> processing, I want to understand if there's something here that needs to
> be clarified or changed to help application developers.

I think that the problem is in the presence of a wildcard, there is NO way 
to tell if something really exists or of you just received a synthesized 
answer based on the wildcard.  Having an indication of that in the data 
returned to the client would be nice, but would require API as well as 
Protocol changes.  The protocol would be the place to start, but the APIs 
that need adding/changing/modifying are in massively large deployment, 
change could take years.

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