[Ietf-not43] #5 inetDnsDomain attributes for contacts and nameservers

Andrew Newton anewton at ecotroph.net
Mon Aug 18 16:16:44 EDT 2003


#5 inetDnsDomain attributes for contacts and nameservers

At first I thought the attributes for contacts and nameservers in 
inetDnsDomain were LDAP url's, but after reading the example it would 
seem they are just strings.  Correct me if I'm wrong (reading the OID 
numbers starts to get confusing for me).

If they aren't LDAP URL's, then what is a client to do with them for 
dereferencing?  Are these LDAP aliases?  The OID number seems to define 
their syntax as that of inetDnsDomain (also confusing since an email 
address is not a domain name).

If the client gets an inetDnsDomain entry, what is it to do to follow 
the information for a nameserver?  Does it requiry the same server? 
Does it start the whole query bootstrapping process again?

Either I just don't get it (entirely probable at this point), or these 
should be LDAP URL's, or there needs to be text defining how a client is 
to further dereference this information.

-andy



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