Re: [DNSOP] Call for Adoption: draft-salgado-dnsop-rrserial

Peter van Dijk <peter.van.dijk@powerdns.com> Tue, 01 June 2021 11:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Call for Adoption: draft-salgado-dnsop-rrserial
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On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 08:59 +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> And maybe cache the value if desired?

I'm already looking forward to having serials in resolver cache dumps!

> At the very least, maybe the draft should be agnostic towards 
> non-authoritative servers?
> 
> So instead of:
> 
>     This EDNS option is aimed only to authorative servers for a zone.
>     Resolvers and forwarders should ignore the option.  It's only
>     intended for hop-to-hop communication (not transitive).
> 
> Maybe:
> 
>     This EDNS option is aimed only at authoritative servers for a zone.
>     It's only intended for hop-to-hop communication (not transitive).
>     Resolver and forwarder behavior is undefined.

I like this. I suspect defining it well for answers from resolvers to
clients would open up a big can of worms that could kill the draft,
like many other drafts that have been crushed under the sheer weight of
scope creep.

Kind regards,
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Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/