On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:11PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
and thereby hiding the fact that someone has either lame delegated or i have forgotten to remove an auth zone, both cases i want to catch. not a win here.
Responding with stale data is, arguably, more damaging than failing to respond at all. So much so that the SOA expiry field serves to protect us from this threat. So, even though Randy is wrong for wanting to catch misconfigurations by producing incorrect data, I also don't see where Joe is coming from. If I hosted my domain with someone whose server was answering recursive queries, I would probably use a lower value for expiry than I normally would otherwise. -- David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time, Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again." Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins