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Re: [mif] Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Sat, 10 September 2011 00:02 UTC

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On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

>> doomed to the eventual state of affairs
>> where the exact same question asked of servers in different networks
>> would give different answers.  We can't change the past. 
> 
> As long as the reply for a given query is always NXDOMAIN
> *except* for the one name server serving the particular offshoot
> of the namespace that the location-dependent domain is in,
> we have not broken the uniqueness of the namespace.

Actually, I disagree.  NXDOMAIN means "this domain does not exist".     Applications should be able to rely on that.

Keith

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