Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Wed, 29 November 2017 01:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)
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You can answer only responses, you can have referral only responses,
you can partial answer + referral responses.

> On 29 Nov 2017, at 12:53 pm, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:46:07PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> GO READ STD13!
> 
> I thought I had, and I thought indeed that I was quoting it to you (or
> at least making references).
> 
> I _suspect_ that you're referring to 4.1.1 in 1035 which describes AA.
> But that says that it "that the responding name server is an authority
> for the domain name in question section."  This does not seem to me to
> line up clearly with the cases called a "referral" in 1034.
> 
> I'm not trying to be religious about this or claim that I have the
> right answer.  I'm just trying to write down the historical lore, so
> that future people don't have to be this bored again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> A
> 
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