[dns-operations] HTTPS record support

[Andrew Latham]

Florian

Can you share a link to the ticket or RFE here?

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM Florian Weimer via dns-operations
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> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:52:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: [dns-operations] HTTPS record support
> * Viktor Dukhovni:
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> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 12:26:44PM +0200, Florian Weimer via dns-operations wrote:
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> >> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:26:44 +0200
> >> Subject: HTTPS record support
> >> To: dns-operations at dns-oarc.net
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> >> I've got an RFE to add HTTPS/SVCB support to glibc's getaddrinfo
> >> implementation.
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> > Why?  It seems an unnatural layer violation.  The IP addressses of a DNS
> > name are NOT provided by its HTTPS or SVCB records.  IP address lookups
> > make sense only *after* a higher layer application API that understands
> > whether or not and which of either SVCB or HTTPS records may be
> > relevant, processes those records and determines which target IP
> > addresses and ports it wants to connect to, and over what transports.
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> The getaddrinfo specification and its refinements that make it clear
> that this interface is not just there to get the raw address information
> out of DNS, but also to perform address sorting based on various
> factors, including network topology information.  It's not much of a
> stretch to include address priority information from DNS as well.
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> I'm not saying that we should go down this path, I'm just trying to
> explain why I didn't want to close the RFE immediately.
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> Thanks,
> Florian
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