Hi, in line with our deprecation policy, I am notifying the mailing list about our intent to deprecated the delegation-only and root-delegation-only options. This is again adept for expedited deprecation - it will be removed in BIND 9.20 and deprecated in BIND 9.18.
The (root-)delegation-options were introduced as a countermeasure for the infamous Site Finder by Verisign[1]. With the controversy around this and introduction of DNSSEC, the likelihood of this happening is infinitesimal. If you don't even know what those options does, the TL;DR is that it disables the non-delegation records for configured domains (TLD), this in turns might break legitimate TLDs like .de, .fr, .museum and others [2][3]. If you know a legitimate reason to keep those options, please describe the use case here or in the issue mention below. This is tracked under https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/3953 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder 2. https://circleid.com/posts/the_name_domain_disrupted_by_site_finder_patch 3. https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/news/warning-for-bind-and-delegation-only-users/ Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) ond...@isc.org My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
