Re: [DNSOP] refer-down

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 09:34:06PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
> > Also, you're the only person who's commented directly and that makes
> > me think the WG isn't going to do much review of it
> 
> Sheesh, it's a national holiday in the US and UK today.  Some of us
> were out having picnics.

My apologies for being unclear.  My point was rather that the draft is
about to expire, and Joe and I created it entirely to draw away the
debate of how referrals _should_ happen from the terminology
document.  Tht was what I meant by "the only person".  As someone who
can barely manage to cope with emails at a 1 week interval any more,
I'm hardly likely to complain people don't get back the same day; but
I do apologise that wasn't clear.

> I like it because I like anything that makes the DNS simpler.  I'd
> make the advice clearer, authoritative servers that want to
> interoperate MUST refuse out of zone requests.

This is an interesting suggestion.  

> I'd also like to consider offering clearer advice on what do do when a
> recursive server gets an authoritative query.  Is there any situation
> other than misconfiguration or testing when that would happen?  Are we
> doing anyone a real favor by returning anything other than REFUSED?

You mean, when a server that is not authoritative for anything
nevertheless gets a query with RD==0?  I think that's fine.  How else
do you debug a cache?

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