Re: [DNSOP] BULK RR as optional feature

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 29 March 2017 13:34 UTC

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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:34:34 -0500
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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] BULK RR as optional feature
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Woodworth, John R wrote:
> I am curious why you feel a nameserver unaware of a new record type
> would ever return it instead of the known type it queried?

No, you're right, you'd only get the BULK if you queried for it, and you'd 
get NXDOMAIN or more likely NODATA for records that might have been 
synthesized.

As Evan points out, this leads to chronically inconsistent DNSSEC.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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