Re: [DNSOP] RFC 1035 vs. mandatory NS at apex?

Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> Thu, 07 February 2019 15:48 UTC

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From: Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:48:19 -0500
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To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Cc: Petr Špaček <petr.spacek@nic.cz>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, IETF DNSOP WG <dnsop@ietf.org>, Kevin Darcy <kevin.darcy@fcagroup.com>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] RFC 1035 vs. mandatory NS at apex?
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:35 AM Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 10:06 AM, Petr Špaček <petr.spacek@nic.cz> wrote:
>
> We (as developers in our office) all have had gut feeling that NS is
> mandatory but we could not find it in the RFCs.
>
>
> I hate to say it, but we should really make sure that this is actually
> stated somewhere where it can reasonably be found.   If it is not, we
> should state it.   Petr was completely sensible to think it was the case
> but not be sure.   Saying that it is the case, and why it is the case,
> would be helpful.   This is something that I hadn’t really thought through
> before Petr asked the question, but I’d been wondering about it too because
> the question comes up in the DNSSD Discovery Proxy code I’m working on (I
> assumed the answer was yes).
>

If we write it down, perhaps we should also mention that other things that
answer DNS queries, like load balancers, should also return proper SOA and
NS records, not just A and AAAA records,  for the same reasons.

-- 
Bob Harold