[bind10-dev] where are rrtypes checked?

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:36:16 -0700,
Jerry Scharf <scharf at isc.org> wrote:

> If I create a wombat resource record and pirate the rrtype of 172, where 
> are the checks done for this being illegal? I am assuming I have 
> bypassed loadzone and stuffed the records into the auth datastore by 
> other means. Examples: will xfrin/xfrout pass them, will auth and 
> recursive queries be accepted or bounced, how will stats and dumps work...

I'm not sure what you mean by "illegal", but any unknown types of RR
will be treated as defined in RFC3597.

(If I remember correctly the current implementation of b10-loadzone
doesn't really behave that way, but my understanding is that it will
be corrected by using the pydnspp backend)

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JINMEI, Tatuya