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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Southeast Iceland: Westerly or southwesterly 5 to 7. Rough or very rough. Showers. Moderate or good. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
