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Re: dropping connections was Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-06.txt
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> Mark Andrews wrote:
> |> Mark Andrews wrote:
> |> | I want a useful diagnostic to be sent.
> | BIND 4 sent REFUSED when it didn't serve the zone, NOTAUTH
> | hadn't been invented. This was before there was any acl's
> | at all. REFUSED was documented in RFC 1034. This is not
> | asking for something new. All clients handle having a error
> | RCODE returned. I'm asking for all servers to generate a
> | error RCODE when they don't want to send the zone.
>
> NSD also sends REFUSED if it doesn't have the zone.
>
> | Is there anything unclear about a error being supposed to
> | be sent?
>
> We could print it in a bigger font size :-)
> Are you implying that deployed implementations of AXFR do not send such
> an error?
Yes.
> Mandating such an error to be sent; although it makes a lot of
> sense, does invalidate those existing implementations.
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Wouter
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