Re: [DNSOP] ANAME in answer or additional section [issue #62]

Anthony Eden <anthony.eden@dnsimple.com> Wed, 12 June 2019 00:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] ANAME in answer or additional section [issue #62]
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I'm a fan of Michael's suggestion of using EDNS to signal that the
authoritative should return ALIAS vs synthesizing. Any reason this won't
work?

-Anthony

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:05 PM Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:31:55AM +0200, Matthijs Mekking wrote:
> > The main argument for putting it in the answer section is that putting
> > it in the additional section implies a lower trust level, and that the
> > record is optional and can be removed when minimizing responses.
>
> I'm inclined to favor this argument (probably unsurprisingly, since I'm the
> one who argued it).
>
> IMHO, the ANAME is the real answer we're sending; the A and AAAA records
> are just friendly hand-holding for legacy servers.  It doesn't make sense
> to me to demote the real answer into the additional section, any more than
> it would have to move DNAME there. The protocol specificaions are clear on
> this point - the more so considering we've already deployed DNAME - and my
> sympathies for an implementation that got it wrong would be limited.
>
> That said, if any resolver implementations are known to choke if they see
> an unexpected extra RRset in the answer section, it would be good to find
> out about it. I guess we should do some testing.
>
> Hm, stub resolvers might be stupider than full resolvers. Perhaps it
> would be useful to differentiate RD=0 and RD=1?
>
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