A DNS Database Referral Mechanism
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Antonio-Blasco Bonito
bonito at nis.garr.it
Tue May 13 17:43:20 CEST 1997
Quoting from Piet Beertema's message: > > > >would it be possible to implement the suggestion made by Robert > >Martin-Legene? It is more flexible... > > >> If the TLD object contains a whois referral, we can > >> a) query the server, and pass the response to the requester, preceded > >> by a comment of the form: "The following data has been obtained from > >> domain-registry.nl". > >> b) pass the referral to the requester > >> c) send the query to the server with the address of the requester > > More flexible and more complicated. What exactly is the > gain over the original, more simple proposal? The proposal was: ...it shouldn't be a problem doing all three and let it be up the the owner of the object. Then the refer attrib could be refer: <forward-type> <whois-server-type> <host> [<port>] where forward-type could be: CHAIN for a) method REFER for b) method FORWARD for c) method To me the advantage is obvious: the owner of the TLD object can change the behaviour of the RIPE-DB server just by changing the refer field... ---------- ---------- Antonio-Blasco Bonito E-Mail: A.Bonito at cnuce.cnr.it Reparto Applicazioni Telematiche c=it;a=garr;p=cnr;o=cnuce;s=A.Bonito CNUCE - Istituto del CNR Tel: +39 (50) 593246 Via S. Maria, 36 Telex: 500371 CNUCE I I-56126 PISA Italy Fax: +39 (50) 904052 ---------- ----------
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