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

[Shane Kerr]

All,

There does not appear to be any strong consensus among DNS experts in
the community about what the right behavior is, so in principle anything
that causes recursive resolvers to do the right thing is fine.

We discussed it on the BIND 10 call last night, and the general
consensus was that REFUSED makes more sense:

https://bind10.isc.org/wiki/WeeklyMinutes20101207#SERVFAILvsREFUSED:preferencepoll

We'll go with that for now. This decision should be relatively easy to
revisit later should it be necessary. In the worst possible case, we can
make this an option for people who feel very strongly about it, but I
doubt it will ever be a high priority. :)

--
Shane

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 17:15 -0500, Joao Damas wrote:
> that didn't seem to be one of the options under consideration, even if BIND 9 does it that way.
> 
> Joao
> 
> On 7 Dec 2010, at 16:24, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It's a policy decision not to return a referral to the root.  It might be
> > hard coded but it is a policy.
> > 
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