[dns-operations] Short NS record names

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed May 11 14:49:02 UTC 2011


PASZTOR Miklos <pasztor at nic.hu> wrote:
>
>  1. There is no need to look up any delegated zone (e.g. nic.hu) when
>     resolving ns1.nic.hu.

You could group your nameservers in a subdomain rather than putting them
in a separate zone. ns.hu maybe?

>  3. Answers will get shorter.

Putting the name server names directly under .hu rather than under nic.hu
will save 4 bytes regardless of the number of records, because of name
compression.

Tony.
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