Re: AXFR extensibility
"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> Wed, 18 July 2001 13:32 UTC
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Andreas Gustafsson writes: > In other words, neither method of extension is currently safe But other methods of extension _are_ safe. I have no objections to a new EXFR query type. All you have to do is make sure that EXFR clients are compatible with NXDOMAIN/NODATA responses from non-EXFR servers. (I'm glad you finally fixed this bug in your IXFR clients, by the way.) ---Dan to unsubscribe send a message to namedroppers-request@ops.ietf.org with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body.
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