Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)

Evan Hunt <each@isc.org> Tue, 14 November 2017 17:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Clarifying referrals (#35)
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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:21:11AM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> i mean propagating REFUSED back to the stub so that it can return an 
> error to its application or user.

Okay. I haven't encountered a resolver that propgates REFUSED from the
authority to the stub.  If there is such a beast, then IMHO that, not the
authority, is the one that's mis-using REFUSED; REFUSED only makes sense on
a hop-by-hop basis.

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