Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-compact-denial-of-existence-03.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sat, 16 March 2024 23:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-compact-denial-of-existence-03.txt
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 01:27:00PM -0700,
 Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 236 lines which said:

> > * is there an EDE which is recommended when replying to an
> > explicit request for a meta-type (like QTYPE=NXNAME)? 
> 
> It doesn't, but could. I don't see an obviously applicable EDE code that
> covers this (apart from the catch-all "Other Error"), so perhaps we could
> define a new one, "Invalid Query Type"?

Currently, I use 18, Prohibited, which is not perfect.

> One current implementation does not differentiate DO=0 vs 1 and gives the
> same NODATA answer for both cases.

Yes. I see no practical problem with that but, from a philosophical
point of view, it disturbs me. Naive clients may make wrong
conclusions from the NODATA answer.