[atlas] Thoughts on allowing newer DNS RR queries?

On 20Feb14, Antony Antony allegedly wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> what is the specific RR query you are looking for?
> 
> currently we support a bunch of them UDP or TCP. Here is a list.
> 
> in class IN
> A, AAAA, ANY, CNAME, DS, DNSKEY, MX, NS, NSEC, NSEC3, PTR, RRSIG, SOA, SRV, NAPTR. 
> 
> class CHAOS 
> hostname.bind, id.server, version.bind, version.server 

Don't ask me why I made such a goof, but for some reason when I
checked I thought I only saw a couple of types. Sorry.

To answer your question, it wasn't a particular type I had in mind, it
was more trying to ask the question of how well the infrastructure
deals with new types.

In the bad old days introducing a new type was deemed risky because a
lot of middleware, such as caches and firewalls had type-specific
code. I was wanting to test the claim that most modern middleware is
type-oblivious and "just works" with new types.

So ideally, it would be a type that doesn't exist or one that has just
recently been published.


Mark.