Work in progress with SRV in getaddrinfo() ?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Studying the process of introducing SRV RR openns the question :
> >> >> 
> >> >> "Is any work in progress installing SRV RR search in getaddrinfo()" ?
> >> 
> >> > 	This is the wrong place to put it.
> >> 
> >> > 	_http._tcp.example.com. SRV 0 0 80 www1.example.com.
> >> > 	_http._tcp.example.com. SRV 0 0 80 www2.example.com.
> >> 
> >> > 	would natually cause two calls to getaddrinfo()
> >> 
> >> > 		getaddrinfo(www1.example.com, 80, ...)
> >> > 		getaddrinfo(www2.example.com, 80, ...)
> >> 
> >> > 	or do you want getaddrinfo() to recurse?
> >> 
> >> Well, getaddrinfo() does return a list of structs today, so it could 
> >> return two ( or more) ipaddr/port combinations. No problem, at 
> >> least not with KAME/FreeBSD getaddrinfo()
> 
> > 	Regardless.  This is not the place to be disussing changes like
> > 	this.  It is a change to a standard function call and as such
> > 	it needs to be discussed in the relevent forum.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> What _is_ the relevant formum in this case ?

	It's not the IETF.  I think that it is IEEE.  If you hunt
	through the IETF IPNG working group archives you will find
	the correct body referenced there as the IETF IPNG made
	changes to getaddrinfo() for IPv6 which then had to be ratified.

> discussing implementing SRV records, and the functions that becomes
> part of the API might have implications for bind-users. At least 
> that was my thought. 
> 
> I might bee wrong here, in fact i'm often wrong. Still, i am happy
> for clues about where to discuss implementation details in this matter.
> 
> Regards
> Peter h
> > 	Mark
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