[pbs-devel] [PATCH v2 backup 02/27] add dns alias schema

[Dietmar Maurer]

So we should call it SCOPED_DNS_NAME, and require the underscore at start?

> On 04/28/2021 6:34 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 28.04.21 18:10, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Seems DNS names in general are totally unrestricted and
> > may contain arbitrary binary data:
> > 
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2181#section-11
> > 
> > Only host names and url are restricted.
> > 
> > ?!
> 
> FYI, from a off-list message from Wolfgang:
> 
> >> and why now only allow as first one?
> > mostly because that's what we did in PVE and because using underscores
> > anywhere else is silly ;-)
> > it's used for scoping, there was even an RFC draft but it's expired and only
> > marked as "best current practice" whatever that's worth:
> > https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf-07.html#rfc.section.1.1
> > so basically: we used to not allow underscores, people do use leading
> > underscores for scoping, and we use it particularly for ACME aliases...
> 
> There was some confusion with which ALIAS you meant, as there's a not really
> used DNS record type named "ALIAS" too (which is unrelated to that one here).