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From: "paul vixie" <vixie@isc.org>
On 5/28/2012 11:52 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
... maybe a bit too much layer ten for my taste. ...
on that, we're trying to improve. for example, we used to forego features that some of us found repugnant, such as nxdomain remapping / ad insertion. since the result was that our software was less relevant but that there was no reduction in nxdomain remapping as a result of BIND not providing it.
To clarify that a bit... You're saying you used to decline to include in BIND the capability to break the Internet by returning things other than NXDOMAIN for names which do not exist... but now you're *ok* with breaking the internet, and BIND now does that? If that's what you mean, I'll explain to you why that's a bad layer 10 call. *Now*, you see, we no longer have a canonical Good Engineering Example to which we can point when yelling at people (and software vendors) which *do* permit that, to say "see? You shouldn't be doing that; it's bad." "The Web Is Not The Internet." Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274