The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Sep 7 14:20:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:01:10 +1000, Mark Andrews said:

> There is NOTHING stopping Sony adding code to the PS3 to perform
> dynamic updates to add the records.  We have a well established
> protocol to do this securely.  100's of millions of records get
> updated daily using this protocol in the corporate environment.
> This is NOTHING Joe Sixpack can't do with a smidgen of help on
> behalf of product vendors.  Home router vendors already have
> code to do this.
>
> 	domain name for the PS
> 	account name
> 	password
>
> account name and password form the TSIG information to secure the
> dynamic update.

And my point was merely that you can't actually use SRV for this use case
until the above is actually deployed, rather than in the "nothing stopping SONY"
hand-waving state.
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