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Re: [DNSOP] Fw: New Version Notification for draft-bellis-dns-recursive-discovery-00

Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Wed, 21 October 2009 11:33 UTC

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From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Fw: New Version Notification for draft-bellis-dns-recursive-discovery-00
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--On 21 October 2009 11:24:08 +0100 Ray.Bellis@nominet.org.uk wrote:

> We could simply propose NXDOMAIN.LOCAL.ARPA. as well.
>
> If the answer for that comes back the same as for DOMAIN.LOCAL.ARPA, we
> know we've got an "evil" resolver. :)

True - and that has obvious benefits. However, testing the new
nameservers work before installing them is probably not a bad idea,
just in case the proxy tries to be "helpful" by transparently intercepting
DNS packets not addressed to it (as a small minority of the proxies
you tested did).

-- 
Alex Bligh

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