[DNSOP] Re: ordering of RRSets in the answer section of a DNS response

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]




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> On Jan 15, 2026, at 06:28, Peter Thomassen <peter=[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
>> On 1/15/26 02:32, Paul Wouters wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026, Robert Edmonds wrote:
>>> Petr Špaček wrote:
>>>> Is it 'protocol-legal' to have multiple identical RRs in the message?
>>>> I would think it is not, but also I don't see test prohibiting it.
>>> "...servers should suppress such duplicates if encountered."
> [...]
>> This advise of suppressing it seems outdated, as it would invalidate the
>> RRSIG over the RRset.
> 
> Signing RRset containing duplicate records is not compliant, so the advice only applies to unsigned zones anyway:
> 
> RFC 4034 Section 6.3:
>  [RFC2181] specifies that an RRset is not allowed to contain duplicate
>  records (multiple RRs with the same owner name, class, type, and
>  RDATA).  Therefore, if an implementation detects duplicate RRs when
>  putting the RRset in canonical form, it MUST treat this as a protocol
>  error.


Yes I was wrong, thanks to the various people who pointed this out 😀 People in the past were already smarter than me!

Paul