Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-dnsop-extended-error

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Tue, 30 October 2018 17:42 UTC

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Ray Bellis wrote:
...
> FWIW, I really wish in retrospect that EDNS(0) had defined the extra
> rcode bits as being for a _sub-type_ of the primary RCODE, i.e. SERVFAIL
> is always "2" in those four bits in the main header, with the extended
> field in the EDNS response allowing for more detail (c.f. this draft).
>
> Unfortunately with the newer RCODEs just being assigned contigiously
> from 16 onwards that's no longer possible :(

it was never possible -- we needed more rcodes, even though we now know 
we also need more detail on existing rcodes.

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P Vixie