Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:56:44PM -0400, > Robert Edmonds <edmo...@mycre.ws> wrote > a message of 34 lines which said: > >> > Passive DNS Replication -- A mechanism to collect and store resource >> > records by observing responses, usually those sent by authoritative >> > servers. Passive DNS databases can be used to recover DNS records >> > which were served in the past, and may allow certain kinds of >> > "inverse" searches of the stored records. Sometimes shortened to >> > "passive DNS". > > My contribution to the painting of the bikeshed: I would drop "usually > those sent by authoritative servers" because the responses can be sent > by servers which are not authoritative for this specific zone (that's > why DNSDB indicates the bailiwick of the response).
in DNSDB, any bailiwick value you see is of an authority zone, and thus, "usually those sent by authoritative servers". i believe that robert's terminology was carefully chosen, and is correct. -- Paul Vixie
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