<html><head></head><body>By the letter of that text it is clearly wrong.<br>
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The text should say, response was generated by an authority server.<br>
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Forwarded responses with aa=1 are informative.<br>
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Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 16, 2015 6:53:07 PM GMT+02:00, Robert Edmonds <edmonds@mycre.ws> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Paul Vixie wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> i don't agree that AA=1 is wrong.<br /> <br /> BIND4/BIND8 used to pass through the full response, including the AA bit, on cache misses. so a client would see AA=1 on the first request for a given rrset, and AA=0 afterward.<br /> <br /> this was not wrong. i demanded it be changed for BIND9, but not because it was wrong. rather, in BIND9 i wanted all responses to be generated from the cache, and never passed through. so, AA=0 on all RD=1 responses from BIND9, but as a side effect, not as a correctness matter<br /></blockquote><br />How do you interpret "response" and "responding name server" in this<br />document so that this behavior is not wrong?<br /><br /><br />RFC 1035 Domain Implementation and Specification November 1987<br /><br /><br />4.1.1. Header section format<br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><br />AA
Authoritative Answer - this bit is valid in responses,<br /> and specifies that the responding name server is an<br /> authority for the domain name in question section.<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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