[AFS3-std] Re: Last Call: draft-allbery-afs-srv-records (DNS SRV
Resource Records for AFS) to Proposed Standard
Russ Allbery
rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:06:23 -0800
SM <sm@resistor.net> writes:
> If it can cause operational problems, then the present text should be
> reworded. I'll reuse text provided by Russ:
> DNS SRV RRs, like all DNS RRs, have a time-to-live (TTL), after which
> the SRV record information is no longer valid [RFC1034]. DNS RRs SHOULD
> be discarded after their TTL, and the DNS query repeated. This applies
> to DNS SRV RRs for AFS as to any other DNS RR. Any information derived
> from the DNS SRV RRs, such as preference ranks, MUST be discarded when
> the DNS SRV RR is expired.
> I moved the RFC 1034 reference to the first sentence in that paragraph. I
> removed the "As specified in" to avoid any inference that the "should" in
> RFC 1034 has been elevated to a "SHOULD".
This looks great. Thank you! Adopted for the next version of the I-D.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>