Re: axfr-clarify on the move again

[gson@nominum.com (Andreas Gustafsson)]

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard writes:
> DJB>   * Under RFC 1034, the Domain Name System has a single node
> DJB>     named full.moon.heaven.af.mil. The records at that node 
> DJB>     are copied to any place that they're needed. If a copy 
> DJB>     isn't exact, the copying mechanism has failed and should be
> DJB>     fixed.
>  
> AG> RFC1034 talks about copying "NS and glue RRs" to the parent, 
> AG> not entire nodes.
> 
> The text that you quote doesn't talk about copying entire nodes, either.  The
> point that you are attempting to make isn't clear.  What is it ?

It said "copy the records", which I would interpret as "copy all the
records" in the absence of further qualification.  I'm simply pointing
out that in fact only some of the records are copied, and therefore
there will be differences between the parent and child data for the
node even in a correctly configured DNS.  Please excuse me if I'm
stating the obvious.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson@nominum.com

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