[AusNOG] Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic

[Jeremy Visser]

On 21/11/12 23:13, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <50ACC2B2.2050404 at visser.name>, Jeremy Visser writes:
>> What would be the real-world implications of actually serving a CNAME at 
>> the root?
> 
> You get inconsistent answers depending apon what records are loaded
> into the cache and in what order they are learnt.  This is documented
> in RFC 1034.

Interesting, thanks for the pointer.

>> (One of these days we'll be resolving web servers with SRV records, but 
>> until then...)

On that subject, I found this to be of interest, authored by you! :-)

<http://www.anta.net/nic/draft-andrews-http-srv-01.shtml>

On 22/11/12 10:20, Mark Newton wrote:
> So a CNAME record in the root of your domain means you can't have
> SOA records (oops), MX records, NS records, etc.

Ouch.