Wouldn't a BULK RR ignorant DNS server just store the BULK RR as opaque data?
Thanks, Donald =============================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:31 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > At yesterday's session, Tale confirmed that since BULK adds so much > new special purpose complexity to DNS servers, the plan is that > support for it will be optional. > > An optional RRTYPE with extra semantics introduces some new > compatibility problems. What happens if a server that doesn't support > BULK tries to load a local zone file with a BULK record. Does it > reject the whole file, ignore the record, or something else? What if > such a server receives BULK by AXFR? By IXFR? What if one shows up > in a cache from a buggy authoritative server? In all of these cases, > the current RFC 3597 behavior will just return the BULK record which > seems wrong. > > I continue to think that this kind of feature belongs in special > purpose DNS servers, not in the core DNS. > > R's, > John > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
