Re: it appears that this whole "ask for AAAA before A" will be painful

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> writes:
    Paul> SERVFAIL is the wrong answer.  SERVFAIL is an indication, not that the type
    Paul> isn't known, but that the zone is invalid at that server.  recursive servers
    Paul> are within their rights to cache SERVFAIL at <ZONE,CLASS>, rather than at
    Paul> <NAME,CLASS,TYPE>.  the proper answer to a AAAA or RT question, if there are
    Paul> no RR's of that type at that name, is NOERROR/ANCOUNT=0.

  Indeed.

    Paul> do we need a BCP draft recommending that SERVFAIL be ignored, in case it came
    Paul> from a load balancer?  or shall we call the load balancers faulty, and let
    Paul> web sites like united.com be stranded in the new IPv6 era?

  I expect that the first part was rhetorical? How could we tell if it was a
load balancer?

  This is something that places like rfc-ignorant.org should document.

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