Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This suggestion was raised (well, there was angry shouting about how
> wrong HINFO was) by Ed Lewis, and I talked to him briefly about it in
> person in Dublin. Paraphrasing, Ed's strong opinion is that we are
> sending a new kind of information using an RRType that was not defined
> for this purpose, and that doing so is lazy and inconsistent with the
> advice that we gave (e.g.) around SPF vs. TXT.
>
> A counter-argument to that is that this is new behaviour, and that there
> is operational value in being able to send a test query with QTYPE=ANY
> and get a response that is human-readable using existing tools.

On the gripping hand, if you get a TYPE69 answer (say), a web search would
soon explain it is a special abbreviated ANY response.

Tony.
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