On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:45 AM Mukund Sivaraman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > RFC 1034 states in 3.1 "The domain system makes no distinctions between > the uses of the interior nodes and leaves, and this memo uses the term > "node" to refer to both." > Right. > Then, it states in 3.6 "A domain name identifies a node. Each node has > a set of resource information, which may be empty." > Ah, great. I couldn't remember whether 1034 described this explicitly. Thanks for quoting the relevant sentences. My point was that 1034 did not use the term "Empty Non Terminal", although as you point out here, it clearly describes the concept (an interior node with no resource information, and that this node exists). > I agree clarification is good, and so RFC 8020++.. however note the > point Vixie makes - NXDOMAINs for ENTs have never been correct in the > DNS. RFC 8020 clarifies it, but the implementations which return > NXDOMAINs are broken against RFC 1034 onwards. > Yes, agreed completely. Shumon.
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