ANY queries and Recursion

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed Aug 16 23:54:11 UTC 2000


> 
> 
> > Queries for qtype=A will return ALL of the A records which are
> > currently defined, but that doesn't mean the list is accurate forever,
> > only that the list is believably accurate for the duration of the TTL.
> 
> Actually, this illustrates that the problem is different from the way in
> which I've positioned it. Since a query for qtype=A will *also* be given a
> bogus answer whenever the domain name is stored as delegation glue, then
> qtype=A will also be given incomplete treatment, and the data will not
> come from an AA source.
> 
> Therefore, rather than saying qtype=ALL *must* be answered from an AA
> source, a more-precise rule would be that NO delegation data can be
> returned as answer data. This might be as easy as flagging a zone table as
> non-eligible for Answers.

	See BIND9.
> 
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