WKD v05: DNS problem when requesting pubkey

Vincent Breitmoser look at my.amazin.horse
Sat Apr 14 13:20:56 CEST 2018


> In general a SRV record is not required and I expect that most Web key
> directories won't use that anyway.  Thus the failure rate would be quite low

...

> But as I explained to you on the phone, there are large mail providers who do
> not have a legal way to control the web part but can change the DNS with the
> exception of the A, AAAA and CNAME records used for the web service.

Those two pieces don't seem to fit. It's not required, most web key directories
won't use them, so you expect a low failure rate except for a bunch of large
mail providers?

 - V




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