Re: [dnsext] Fwd: RFC 2308 & RFC 4035

John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sun, 27 February 2011 18:29 UTC

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>- From an efficiency point, using cached NSECs helps; but for caches the
>nxdomain and nodata traffic is a lot smaller than e.g. for roots.

Don't assume that.  If the zone is a DNSBL, there will be a whole lot
of nxdomain queries, particularly in an IPv6 world where spamware hops
to a new IP on every message.

R's,
John