A moment ago we were being told how vitally important it was for AXFR
clients to preserve all records received under all circumstances:
* ``An ACURATE [sic] copy of the zone is ESSENTIAL'';
* ``A modified zone is NOT a [sic] ACURATE [sic] copy. It's not
even a copy. It is a derived work'';
* ``IXFR depends upon the contents of the zone not being changed
unilaterally on the SECONDARY'';
* ``Bernstein still misunderstands zone coherency''; etc.
This rhetoric is supposed to convince you that the majority of AXFR
clients (BIND 8 et al.) are doing something wrong by discarding parent
glue records when they have the authoritative child records.
But now Gustafsson admits that the BIND 9 AXFR client doesn't follow
the ``zone coherency'' religion. It deliberately discards some kinds of
records! It isn't making a perfect copy of the zone! It's breaking IXFR!
Here's the quote: ``BIND 9 ... will discard [these] records whether they
are loaded from a master file or received as part of a zone transfer.''
To summarize: Not only is the BIND company (1) fraudulently labelling
its religion as a ``clarification'' and (2) fraudulently claiming
``consensus'' on the religion over the objections of several people,
but it is also (3) deliberately disobeying its own commandments.
---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago