On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:19:27AM -0700, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote a message of 63 lines which said:
> he has made the excellent point that the query exists, and has > well-defined semantics Well-defined, may be (but I do not think so, RFC 1035 is almost silent on it), but not well-understood by many developpers. > I find it astonishing that there is this overwhelming "We must > preserve backwards compatibility at all costs!" sentiment on so many > ridiculous topics in the DNS, and yet because people hate the ANY > query (and particularly one software author's perceived > misappropriation of it) SO MUCH y'all are willing to throw backwards > compatibility out the door for something that it's absolutely clear > will break deployed applications Using QTYPE=ANY and expecting all the records in the answer does not work TODAY (and even yesterday, see Evan Hunt and Mark Andrews' messages). So, we break nothing. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
