On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 08:01:14AM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi all
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-client-subnet-06
>
> says in Section 6. Option Format:
>
> >   o  A server receiving an ECS option that uses more ADDRESS octets
> >      than are needed, or that has non-zero bits set beyond SOURCE
> >      PREFIX-LENGTH, SHOULD return REFUSED to reject the packet, as a
> >      signal to the developer of the software making the request to fix
> >      their implementation.
>
> FORMERR seems more appropriate than REFUSED for an implementor to notice
> format issues, and perhaps this has been raised on this list already. If
> you can change this, please change this to FORMERR.

Also note that section 7.2.1 is almost disagreeing with the above:

>   A query with a wrongly formatted option (e.g., an unknown FAMILY)
>   MUST be rejected and a FORMERR response MUST be returned to the
>   sender, as described by [RFC6891], Transport Considerations.

                Mukund

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