On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 07:39 +0000, John Levine wrote:
RFC1035:
Well it does say should,
See RFC2181 section 5.2.
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| Should an authoritative source send such a malformed RRSet, the
| client should treat the RRs for all purposes as if all TTLs in the
| RRSet had been set to the value of the lowest TTL in the RRSet.
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While this may address a publishing error, it could also address a set
handling error, which does not provide any solace. It seems a perm
error may unpleasantly uncover such simplified behavior, if it exists.
-Doug