Re: [dmarc-ietf] Draft 10 notes: NXDOMAIN

Todd Herr <todd.herr@valimail.com> Mon, 27 June 2022 13:52 UTC

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:51:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Draft 10 notes: NXDOMAIN
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 1:27 PM Douglas Foster <
dougfoster.emailstandards@gmail.com> wrote:

> Our draft references and repeats RFC 8020, which asserts that
>
> "when a DNS resolver receives a response with a response code of NXDOMAIN,
> it means that the domain name which is thus denied AND ALL THE NAMES UNDER
> IT do not exist."
>
> My testing indicates that this is not correct.   NXDOMAIN means that no
> resource records exist for the specified domain name.  The domain may
> contain subdomain nodes which may contain resource records.
>
> My testing performed on Windows.
>
> Can someone else test this and report your results?
>
>
It might help further the discussion if you were to favor the rest of us
with the examples you used.

Specifically, for which domain name did you query and received an NXDOMAIN
response, and for which subdomain node of that domain did you query and
receive resource record(s) in return?
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