T_ANY

[Kevin Darcy]

On 3/20/2010 5:29 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> ANY queries are supposed to be used for debugging not for
> normal operations.
>
>    

At the risk of nitpicking your use of the term "supposed to be"...

"ANY" queries (aka QTYPE=*), have pretty much been reduced to a mere 
debugging tool, because of the standards-community's failure to deal 
with certain caching complications. But I believe the QTYPE was 
_originally_ intended to be a robust mechanism for fetching multiple 
RRsets at a time.It just didn't work out that way...

                                                                         
                                                 - Kevin