Re: FW: DISCUSS: draft-ietf-ops-rfc3291bis-04.txt

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:17:54PM +0200, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
 
> Not sure I (yet) fully understand if such description
> (or any text withing 3291bis) needs to speak about wether
> a query for A or a AAAA is needed. 

Not sure what the question is. I see two questions:

a) Should there be text which says that different DNS records might
   be queried to resolve the name?

   Personally, I do not think such a clarification is really necessary 
   since this is obvious in case your box does support multiple IP 
   versions. But if people feel strongly that such a clarification is
   necessary, I have no problem if such text gets added.

b) Should we require that DESCRIPTIONs spell out the order in which
   you try to resolve names?

   I think this would actually be a bad idea since the order is not
   really MIB object specific but resolver specific and something
   that the operator might want to control (rather being hard wired
   in the MIB objects). In other words, I would prefer to have
   specific objects which allow to control and configure the order
   in which a resolver does its job.

So what was the question? ;-)

/js

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