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Re: [dnsext] draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-00.txt

Matthew Dempsky <matthew@dempsky.org> Tue, 02 February 2010 17:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-00.txt
From: Matthew Dempsky <matthew@dempsky.org>
To: Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com>
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> wrote:
> [2] Authoritative servers who can't/won't speak this EDNS0 option. The draft
> does not specify how they should behave.

Again complaining that a draft doesn't specify how software not
following that draft should behave.

> Another Bad Idea in this draft is the concept of not using these extended
> queries to root and TLD servers. [Ironically, this is one place where
> "optimised" addresses in responses could be useful by directing resolvers to
> the nearest server for a referral.]

The stub resolver's IP address isn't useful when querying zones that
only return delegation responses.  That data is used by the recursive
resolver, not the stub, and authoritative servers already have the
recursive resolver's full IP address.

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