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Måns Nilsson
mansaxel at sunet.se
Tue Oct 4 09:12:40 CEST 2005
--On den 3 oktober 2005 17.10.53 +0200 Peter Koch <pk at DENIC.DE> wrote: >> In the interest of sanity, I'd suggest adding "should answer queries >> about said domain with the AA bit set" (in addition to >> swallowing/properly rejecting/processing updates and allowing/properly >> refusing zone transfers). That is the The Right Thing to do, IMHO, > There's no RFC that would support this as far as I can see. At least > there's no RFC that suggests that the server named in MNAME act as an > additional resource to what is already in the NS RRSet. 1035 says: MNAME The <domain-name> of the name server that was the original or primary source of data for this zone. I think this is supportive of the idea that questions about the zone SHOULD be answered, and that AA bit SHOULD be set. > So, my suggestion is to adjust the MNAME text in a way that keeps the > original spirit but explicitly says that the name in MNAME > > 1) must resolve to an A RR(Set) > 2) the address (or, to complicate matters, addresses) must be the public > address of the (hidden/stealth) primary master ...and thus as per above SHOULD do dns? I think there is support in the text for that. > Please remember that RIPE-203 does not try to be an exhaustive (even less > so normative) explanation for all the SOA RR's parameters for most any > situation. It aims at a rather large subset (maybe in the 70-80%) of > zones which can live well with these defaults. Understood. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 cell KTHNOC +46 8 790 6518 office MN1334-RIPE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/attachments/20051004/5e6b43df/attachment.sig>
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