Re: [dnsext] [taugh.com-standards] draft-levine-dnsextlang-02 interop w/ rfc3597[bis]

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Wed, 28 March 2012 09:19 UTC

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> But what happens if the implementation supporting Ext'lang and
> having been configured with the friendly format for a specific
> "Unknown RRtype" (as listed in RFC 3597) has operational needs
> to _export_ data to a non-upgraded recipient system, in a specific
> operational environment?

It uses AXFR or something similar.  This is not a new problem, since there 
are plenty of DNS servers that use RFC 1034 master file format and haven't 
been upgraded to handle recently defined RR types.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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