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[dnsext] Re: need new flag bit in EDNS, "do me no favours" (DMNF)

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 26 October 2010 07:17 UTC

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:14:21 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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Subject: [dnsext] Re: need new flag bit in EDNS, "do me no favours" (DMNF)
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:51:44AM -0700,
 David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> Are you aware of the term "closing the barn door after the horse has
> bolted"?

I think so (except that in French, it is the stable door, not the barn
door). So do you suggest that, since DNS lies are presently common, we
should accept the fact that the semantics of the DNS changed (by
arm-twisting, not by bottom-up, transparent, open, IETF process), and
we now have to explicitely ask for the truth?

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