Re: [Doh] Clarification for a newbie DoH implementor

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Mon, 20 May 2019 08:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] Clarification for a newbie DoH implementor
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On 19/05/2019 16:41, Ben Schwartz wrote:

> The classic DNS protocol doesn't have any such role indications either.  
> Thus, when I send a query to my network's advertised DNS server, I have 
> no idea whether it is acting as a recursive, forwarding my query to a 
> recursive (e.g. dnsmasq), or something in-between.  This is transparent 
> and generally does not cause problems.

Not so - see RFC 5625 and SSAC035.

Ray