As to, "Yes, that clearly violates the TTL of the rrset, but wouldn't be
over-all better for the health of the internet?”

Absolutely not!  Save us from decisions based on assumptions rather than fact!

If you really believe that decisions based on ignorance are better, set your 
MTA to pick a recipient for email whenever the left-hand part is unrecognized.  
As some others here would do, I also encourage my competitors to follow your 
idea.


James R. Cutler
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> On Dec 24, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Colm MacCárthaigh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There's a good question embedded in that discussion:  when a resolver
> fails to get an answer from all of the authoritative nameservers for a
> domain, why not use the last known answer, even if it's stale.
> 
> Yes, that clearly violates the TTL of the rrset, but wouldn't be
> over-all better for the health of the internet?
> 
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784210
>> 
>> After the successful attacks against Rackspace, Namecheap, DNSsimple
>> and 1&1, it is clear that dDoS attacks against DNS servers are very
>> common this winter, and they succeed :-(
>> 
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