[bind10-dev] dns python binding doesn't support some qtypes

[Jelte Jansen]

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On 03/18/2011 05:46 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:48:43AM -0700, Jerry Scharf wrote:
>>> A number of these RR types are deprecated and should not be supported in 
>>> BIND 10. I know WKS, HINFO and MINFO are, but I don't have the full list 
>>> of deprecated types.
>>
>> I don't know, is it bad to know about deprecated RRtypes? I mean, it doesn't
>> hurt to tell the user he shouldn't use them, but crash about it?
> 
> It should not crash. We should act like BIND 9 where it indicates that 
> they are "obsolete".

I think the library (and its language bindings) should be able to at
least read and write any type that has a definition somewhere, without
any complaints, unless it also has another definition that negates the
first.

Whether or not the server should accept and handle them is another
question imo, and that is where one would warn about obsoleted data.

BTW i also made a list once, at http://tjeb.nl/Projects/RRTypes but have
not updated it for a few years now i think (and I was not aware that WKS
was obsolete as an RRType).

Jelte
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