Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-00.txt

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Dave Lawrence wrote:
> Alexander Mayrhofer writes:
>> I'm torn on the question whether or not stale data should be served
>> (without signaling, in that case) when the request does *not*
>> contain an OPT request.
>
> I'm personally not torn on this; for me the whole point of
> implementing this functionality is to add resiliency to the existing
> DNS ecosystem.  Very specifically for my implementation it was needed
> in an environment where answers were going to a stub resolver that did
> not (and still does not) speak EDNS.
>
> It is significantly less operationally beneficial if it demands EDNS.

i'm of the opposite view. we should not change behaviour without 
explicit signaling. if that means it takes 10 years to reach 50% 
penetration, like EDNS did, then that's the cost of doing business.

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P Vixie