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Re: Zonecuts specified in SPF draft

2005-01-14 14:31:39

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:

There are zero SOA records               ^^^

...in the answer section.  But there is one in the authority section.
Does that make a relevant difference?

Q: What is the SOA record for ...
A: There is no SOA record for ...
   this information comes from zone ... with soa record ...

This is a hint, but exactly the right hint for us - it tells us which is
the zonefile and what is the zonecut and we use it. And SOA hint in
AUTHORITY section is returned by dns servers not only for direct SOA 
lookups but for any type of lookups for when hostname exist but does
not have specified RR type.

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net


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