[2111] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Redundant web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Sat May 18 09:51:52 1996
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 15:51:31 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 12:24:30 +0100
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dan Stromberg writes:
| 3) Push for an extension to DNS, to handle "any of these N hosts are
| dandy for satisfying requests to this address", ala MX records. It
| seems like something more general than protocol-specific facilities may
| be called for. At first blush, it seems that an MX record-analog, that
| is a function not just of host, but also of port # and tcp/udp/whatever,
| might work well. Of course, DNS requests do not generally indicate what
| service is going to be used, so the problem isn't Quite that simple.
Take a look at ... <URL:ftp://ftp.internic.net/internet-drafts/internet
-drafts/draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-03.txt>
Martin
