Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-refuse-any: points from Richard Gibson

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 27 July 2017 08:49 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-refuse-any: points from Richard Gibson
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Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2017, at 13:28, Richard Gibson <rgibson@dyn.com> wrote:
> >
> > I remain concerned about issuing incomplete responses to ANY queries
> > without indication of such, and predict that it will hinder
> > operational problem investigation and remediation (especially
> > pertaining to IPv4/IPv6 issues).
>
> OK. Your future tense is Cloudflare's past tense and I have not heard of
> an example of the kind of operational confusion that you're predicting
> there, but perhaps I'm just not listening in the right dark corners.

The only minimal-any confusion I have experienced recently was when the
BIND 9.12 development version of `dig` started using TCP for ANY queries
which made me think minimal-any wasn't working properly :-) But I think
in most cases this change will reduce the confusion Richard is worried
about.

Tony.
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