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Re: [dane] Behavior in the face of no answer?

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> Fri, 04 May 2012 20:12 UTC

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On May 4, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 
>> I believe it is possible to get a useful response that has nothing in
>> the Answer, Authority, and Additional sections only if you trust your
>> upstream, you trust the connection somehow, you set CD=0, and you get
>> AD=1 on the response.  In that case, I believe it is a legitimate
>> NODATA response (though I don't know of any implementation that works
>> this way), and it is validated.
> 
> How many months until Rogers (or OpenDNS, or...) starts spitting out AD=1
> on their DNS rewriting schemes?

Xerocole already says "Just do it"...

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