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

[Nicholas Weaver <[e-mail]>]

On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Alex Bligh wrote:
>> 
>> Why not just allow the end user to specify an arbitrary IP address
>> which is the IP address he'd like authoritative nameserver to
>> treat as the source address for the query (possibly with a netmask
>> to indicate which bits are accurate), rather than saying he MUST
>> use the local IP address etc. etc.;
> 
> I thought one of the aims of the draft is to avoid specifying changes for
> the protocol between stub resolvers and recursive resolvers.

Clients shouldn't NEED to specify, but should be ABLE to specify.  Likewise, you could have a stub resolver to proxy to recurvise, and that proxy may benefit in being the place to add that information.

And as mentioned by others, being able to specify in a query would really aid in debugging if nothing else.