Daniel Micay on Twitter: "https://t.co/2rTKn6FRAc By the way, synthetic records implementing an equivalent to CNAME implemented as A/AAAA records is a widespread performance optimization offered by many providers. So many resources going into trying to make enumerating badness work in a reactive way." / Twitter

twitter.com/woodyatpch/sta By the way, synthetic records implementing an equivalent to CNAME implemented as A/AAAA records is a widespread performance optimization offered by many providers. So many resources going into trying to make enumerating badness work in a reactive way.

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Bill Woodcock

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Feb 25, 2021

Two years ago, I pointed to CNAME chaining as one of the methods of graft Ethos would likely employ to extract money from nonprofits and their constituents if they succeeded in taking over .ORG. Ethos and ICANN dismissed it as technically impossible. thehackernews.com/2021/02/online

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It's a nice optimization and it would be nice to have it available from more providers. It's sad that it will probably end up being a standard DNS provider feature because their customers will want it to bypass content filtering rather than because it speeds things up for users.

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