24 Aug
2017
24 Aug
'17
7:42 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:53:58AM +1000, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote a message of 39 lines which said:
If Google was being sensible the servers would just return the information along with the answer. They all support EDNS.
I fully agree with you that NSID (RFC 5001) is great and Google should really deploy it. However:
e.g. dig +nsid @8.8.8.8
I assume that Google wants also to be debuggable by people who work on inferior operating systems, and have no dig. Hence this trick. For instance, L.root-servers.net has both NSID and a special name, identity.l.root-servers.org (see RFC 7108).