In message <[email protected]>, Ray Bellis 
writes:
> 
> On 8 Nov 2012, at 12:59, Nicholas Weaver <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How do recursive resolvers react to unknown EDNS0 options?
> > 
> > Are the requests simply dropped?  
> > Is the unknown option removed and ignored?  
> > Passed to the authority unchanged?
> 
> They certainly shouldn't do the latter - EDNS is supposed to be "hop by 
> hop", not "end to end".
> 
> RFC 2671 appears silent on drop vs ignore.  2671bis explicitly says 
> "ignore".

And it wouldn't be drop in any case.  It would be NOTIMP/FORMERR vs ignore.

Mark
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