On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:18:39PM +0000, Dick Franks wrote: > > And said referral could be to an arbitrary node in the DNS tree, i.e. > possibly "upward"? > > Or am I missing something?
That depends on whether you believe the later part of the algorithm in RFC 1034 (where it says to do things from the cache) is part of the "referral" part, particularly in a mixed-mode server where it has received a query with RD=0. The list appears to have strong feelings about that. It's why Joe and I wrote draft-sullivan-dnsop-refer-down. As I've said many times, I don't believe that settling that question is appropriate for the terminology document. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
