On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 22:09 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <peter.van.d...@powerdns.com> wrote:
> > Also in section 3.2, I do not think responding with the option should
> > be limited to NOERROR. Specifically, I'd very much also want it to work
> > for NXDOMAIN,
> 
> Isn't the SOA record usually present in a negative response?

Good point! In that case, I retract most of that and suggest the draft
points out that in those cases, a serial can be extracted anyway. That
said, I'm not sure that's a reason to skip including the option in the
response.

> and I can imagine some cases of it being useful even in SERVFAIL cases
> > (at least in database-driven name servers like PowerDNS, where
> > individual records inside a zone can be broken).
> 
> Perhaps also in cases where the server has a copy of zone serial number
> NNN but it has expired.

+1
 
Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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