Re: in support of axfr-clarify

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

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Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes:
> This is why you MUST preserve zone contents with AXFR.

No. If a screwy configuration causes problems with the deployed AXFR
protocol, the solution is to outlaw the configuration, not to demand
that the entire universe deploy new software.

Is interoperability such a difficult concept to grasp? If you want a new
protocol, use a new query type. Using the existing AXFR type is clearly
malicious: you're trying to hurt other implementors and users.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago



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