Re: [dnsext] RFC3596: A/AAAA records and additional section processing

Dave Lawrence <tale@dd.org> Fri, 04 March 2011 16:37 UTC

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Colm MacCárthaigh writes:
> 2011/3/3 Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>:
> > No. That is not addition section processing.  That is referral
> > processing.  Additional section processing would be returning A
> > and AAAA to NS queries.
> 
> dig AAAA www.google.com @a.root-servers.net.
> and
> dig NS www.google.com @a.root-servers.net.
> return literally byte-identical responses after the question section.
> 
> I find it hard to reason about what the difference is.

At a delegating parent there is no meaningful difference because the
referral processing will always happen before additional processing
can even be considered.

There's quite a meaningful difference at the actual authority,
however.

dig a www.google.com @ns1.google.com
dig aaaa www.google.com @ns1.google.com
dig ns www.google.com @ns1.google.com