Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Fri, 22 January 2010 12:09 UTC

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Additionally NSEC3 provides no real benefit is highly structured zones
like IP6.ARPA.  It is relatively easy to enumerate a IP6.ARPA zone even
if it is using NSEC3 by making use of the zone's structure.

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