[bind10-dev] DNS packet API: the name object

[Evan Hunt]

> Maybe we can begin with absolute names only and see if we really need
> to support non-absolute ones as part of the API.

As far as I can see, you can just flag whether a name is absolute or
relative by adding a boolean to the data structure, without altering
the internal data representation in any other way; I wouldn't expect it
to burden the API design too much.

Writing code to parse a zone master file, where every name that doesn't
end in a dot is supposed to be relative to $ORIGIN, seems like it would be
simpler if the name class understood the idea of "relative names".

                                                eh