Re: [PATCH] Add missing RR type numbers to ns_type

[Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 10:52 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 08/16/2016 10:52 PM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > 
> > From a53a3428ee7c2c1dc3e3ff7e682e87f6694d9a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001
> > From: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:43:29 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] Add missing RR type numbers to ns_type
> > 
> > The ns_type enumeration was missing quite a few resource records.
> > This
> > patch updates the enumeration to reflect the current state of the
> > IANA
> > DNS Parameters registry.
> > 
> >     http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-parameters.x
> > html
> 
> The problem with <arpa/nameser.h> is that it is stuck in the
> past.  It 
> was never updated for DNSSECbis (which is incompatible with the
> original 
> DNSSEC).  And there are declarations in it which do not have 
> implementations in glibc.
> 
> I was leaning towards deprecating the header and eventually removing
> it. 
>   What kind of use do you see for it?

I'm fine with that. So long as you are on the record, I can use this
conversation to discourage the use of this header in projects that
object to RR types that aren't in the enum.

Nathaniel