[98492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Industry best practices (was Re: large organization nameservers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Aug 10 00:57:05 2007
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 10 Aug 2007 04:55:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.999.0708091556420.29237@ync.qbhto.arg>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
dougb@dougbarton.us (Doug Barton) writes:
> ... I took this a step further and worked (together with others) on a
> patch to restrict the size of DNS answers to < 512 by returning a random
> selection of any RR set larger than that.
note that this sounds like a DNS protocol violation, and usually is. every
time someone sent me a BIND patch adding this kind of deliberate instability
(see RFC 1794 for an example) i said "no".
--
Paul Vixie
