[bind10-dev] allow/deny xfr requests by default?

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:43:53 +0000 (UTC),
Dan Mahoney <dmahoney at isc.org> wrote:

> > It doesn't explain why, but if we want to conform to the "SHOULD NOT"
> > as a "reference implementation" (regardless of whether it makes sense
> > or not), the choice will be to deny it by default.
> 
> Nor does it explain why it only specifies AXFR and not AXFR/IXFR.

True, but that RFC intentionally focuses on AXFR:-)  Again, since it
doesn't explain why SHOULD NOT we cannot be sure, but I guess the
rationale wasn't specific to AXFR (e.g., that it generally involves
larger amount of traffic).

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JINMEI, Tatuya