Subject: RE: rfc2052bis

From: Stuart Kwan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:39:53 -0800

The Microsoft DNS server implementation (both NT4 and Win 2000) does not
compress the target server field in the SRV RR.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert Elz [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Monday, November 23, 1998 2:27 AM
> To:	Peter Koch
> Cc:	[email-masked]
> Subject:	Re: rfc2052bis 
> 
>     Date:        Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:04:53 +0100
>     From:        Peter Koch <[email-masked]>
>     Message-ID:  <[email-masked]>
> 
>   | The draft still says about the field "target": "Name compression is to
> be
>   | used for this field." This has already been agreed upon as an
>   | interoperability problem,
> 
> I think we need to know here what the existing users of SRV actually
> do in this area?   That is, how is it implemented now?
> 
> Essentially everyone agrees that there is no good way to add new RRs using
> general DNS name compression - but at the same time, that is exactly what
> everyone has been doing since the inception of the DNS.   Strictly, MX
> records should not be using compression for their names - but they do.
> 
> kre