Placing New information in DNS: Reuse existing Type TXT may appear as the obvious choice No semantics RFC 1464 subtyping prefixing could help, but has its own problems TXT wastes space, this is still important If new RRset is large you want EDNS0 support Modern software does this and unknown types as well!!!! MORAL: Fight for local upgrades, do not force the whole Internet to work around your local issues. |