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Re: [DNSOP] draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answers

Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> Fri, 06 November 2015 18:05 UTC

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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 13:05:00 -0500
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From: Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@tisf.net>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answers
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie@tisf.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, November 05, 2015 10:26:22 PM Ray Bellis wrote:
>
> >
> > IMHO, if a clarification is needed, it's that a client that depends on
> > the order of the RRsets in an answer MUST NOT do so.
>
> there's an installed base consisting of over a billion stubs and a few
> tens of
> millions of recursives who will fail to parse your response if the CNAME
> comes
> after the thing it points to.
>
> generally speaking, that has to be documented, and has first-mover
> advantage.
>
> --
> P. Vixie
>
>
> To keep things working, I agree that that servers MUST order the answers.

I thought of suggesting that "clients SHOULD accept answers in any order".
But on second thought, this increases code complexity, for no real
benefit.  And we will probably see more low-compute-power devices doing
some basic DNS lookups that need to keep code to a minimum.

-- 
Bob Harold

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