[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    the SRV record information is no longer valid [RFC1034].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/>