Re: [DNSOP] The Larger Discussion on Differences in Response Drafts

[Marek Vavruša <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2016, at 11:29, Marek Vavruša wrote:
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>> Or SRV.
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> I disagree that a user, when asking for a SRV record, doesn't know that it
> is likely that they would want the results for the information that comes
> back in the RDATA.

No question about that, but she doesn't know what the target name is.
Expressing "I want SRV type for this name, and A/AAAA for the SRV
record targets" is doable, at the cost of additional complexity on
both client and server.

>> These are cases where authoritative/resolver adding
>> interesting records as additionals works better.
>> Authoritatives have been doing that with extra SOA/NS in authority for
>> a while (for positive answers), but now
>> resolvers can hardly use them if these records are not secure.
>
>
> Security of additional data is important, but orthogonal to what can be
> asked for or pushed.
>
>> Regardless of which draft is going to be adopted,
>
>
> This thread is not about "which draft", it is about what is needed.

Thank you, I should have phrased that differently.

> --Paul Hoffman