On 2013-06-24, at 12:56, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:

> In looking at the diffs, I still have the question I had earlier about NSID. 
> I give the following command three times quickly:
>   dig -4 @L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET . SOA +nsid +norec +noall +comments
> I get three different answers (lax16..., lax09..., lax13...).
> 
> This is similar to the variance I see when doing
>   dig -4 @L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CH TXT +short
> and
>   dig -4 @L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ID.SERVER CH TXT +short
> However:
>   dig IDENTITY.L.ROOT-SERVERS.ORG TXT +short
> gives me the same answer each time I give it.
> 
> So, I'm still confused about the paragraph just before section 4.1.

That paragraph addresses the case of:

 (a) send query, get problematic response
 (b) do HOSTNAME.BIND (or similar) query to identify what node I'm talking to

It's entirely possible that the responding node for (a) will be different from 
the responding name for (b), in which case the node identity wouldn't 
correspond with the node that seemed to be giving a problematic response.

If instead you do:

  (a) send query with NSID, get problematic response

then the identity of the node exposed by the use of NSID corresponds exactly to 
the node that supplied the problematic response, in all cases, guaranteed.


Joe
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