deny tld wilcards?

Paul Vixie paul at vix.com
Tue Sep 16 16:47:12 UTC 2003


no, it's too likely that a tld operator who wants to deploy wildcards
will just use multiple A RR's and let round robin take care of avoiding
the always-nxdomain approach you outline.  we're doing something more
basic, that does not depend on the value of the A RDATA.

re:

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:12:50 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Jakob Schlyter <jakob at rfc.se>
> To: Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com>
> Cc: bind9-workers at isc.org
> Subject: Re: deny tld wilcards? 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > we're working on it now
> 
> good. very good.
> 
> once that has been deployed, their next version will probably do A-record
> synthesis instead. I believe we need to be prepared for something like:
> 
> 	options {
> 		always-nxdomain { 64.94.110.11; };
> 	};
> 
> 
> the impact of this whole issue on dnssec may be "interesting".
> 
> 
> 	jakob


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