Evan Hunt wrote: >>> Should we also mention that NODATA responses usually include a SOA record >>> in the authority section to indicate to resolvers how long to do negative >>> caching for? >> That does not seem to be established firmly enough for us to add. > > It's necessary for negative caching, so I believe it's required > for authoritative responses (RFC 2308 section 3), but optional for > recursive. > > Might also add that DNSSEC-signed zones will include a signed NSEC/NSEC3 > to prove the nonexistence of the qtype.
those sound like protocol clarifications rather than terminology clarifications. -- Paul Vixie _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
