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Re: [DNSOP] [dns-operations] dnsop-any-notimp violates the DNS standards

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 09 March 2015 16:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [dns-operations] dnsop-any-notimp violates the DNS standards
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Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
> Even ignoring if qmail is “broken”.  (I would rather classify it as, could do
> better)

Yes.

> dnsop-any-notimp violates the principle of least surprise in technology by
> returning NOTIMP where Paul Vixie suggested NOERROR/ANCOUNT=0 would be more
> appropriate with the existing definitions.

This would have the amusing effect of disabling qmail's address
canonicalization without patching qmail.

Tony.
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