On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:32:19PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
But the main question is, if this is "broken.", please elaborate what exactly "breaks."
I take it that unless I can point to some specific situation in which some specific application or user community is negatively impacted by this, you'll go on assuming that this deviant behaviour is merely an exercise in creativity.
The way to go about this is to see if breaking existing practice will break current implementations and plausible future implementations.
If that's not the case, though, consider that a correct implementation of DNS would be within its rights to take note of the "same serial number but incoherent answers" condition and declare the zone unreachable. I'm not
Would be pretty silly, and overstepping the robustness principle.
DNS is about fact, not value -- it's about mechanism, not policy.
No matter how you slice it, intentionally incoherent DNS zones are "broken."
So by your logic, by making sure that the serial numbers never match, we would 'unbreak' the situation? Seems like a step in the wrong direction. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services Trilab The Technology People Netherlabs BV / Rent-a-Nerd.nl - Nerd Available - 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet