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Re: [DNSOP] [dns-operations] dnsop-any-notimp violates the DNS standards

David C Lawrence <tale@akamai.com> Mon, 09 March 2015 16:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [dns-operations] dnsop-any-notimp violates the DNS standards
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RFC 1035 explicitly allows for a server to indicate that a kind of
query is not implemented.

Whether it is a good idea to respond to ANY this way is a separate
argument that is worth having.  You just won't win on the foundation
that it is a violation of the standard.

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