Re: [DNSOP] ENT and NXDOMAIN: the case of RFC 4035

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 29 September 2016 11:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] ENT and NXDOMAIN: the case of RFC 4035
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:31:32AM +0100,
 Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> Roy Arend's response was that the intent was that an ENT response
> requires the same NSEC records as an NXDOMAIN response, but not the same
> RCODE.

Sure, but the title of the section is very misleading.

I tried to write an errata to RFC 4035 but it is complicated because
it requires to find new terminology for the two cases named "No data"
and "Name error".

May be just adding in 3.1.3.2:

   This section only deals with NSEC records to return. Its title does
   not imply that the proper RCODE is
   always "Name error" (NXDOMAIN). For instance, in the case of an
   ENT, the correct RCODE is "No error".