[bind10-dev] SERVFAIL vs REFUSED in case of 'no such zone'

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:41:42 +0000,
Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:

> > Opinions?
> 
> I think it would be best to return REFUSED if the server is not configured
> to be authoritative for the zone, and SERVFAIL if it is configured to be
> authoritative but the configuration is broken (e.g. if a slaved zone
> expired).

May I ask you why? (not to object to it, but out of curiosity).  Maybe
you want to separate the two types of abnormal conditions by different
RCODEs, but since both REFUSED and SERVFAIL can be returned for other
reasons, you cannot be sure anyway.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.