On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, John Levine wrote:
If you're arguing from practice, the practical fact is that at least one
widely used DNS cache, the one in djbdns, doesn't return authority records
so clients can never find the zone cut.
Does it really not return even on SOA request?
Uh, perhaps this would be a good time to reread the RFCs and learn
what an authority record is.
SOA is an authority section, I know. That is why I asked if it actually
does not provide on direct request - that would be pretty strange
Besides that as far as I know djbdns cache is not as used as much as
djbdns dns server itself and there are several small dns cache-only
servers available on unix that somebody who needs a replacement can very
quickly switch to ...
If we're going to demand that people change their working software, I
have a whole lot of much more exciting things to propose.
Asking people to change and stop using _part_ of the software that is
not consistant with standards is not inappropriate.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net