Ack.  Tnx.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:56 AM Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 Aug 2019, at 10:59, Steve Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > At the risk of revealing that I haven't been following this thread
> carefully, I don't understand how a resolver is supposed to know all of the
> special names.  Resolvers that are configured to know that invalid, local,
> onion, and test are special will not know about the next name that's put on
> the special list.
>
> The pragmatic answer right now is that vendors and package maintainers do
> a good job with their default configurations. DNS software tends to get
> upgraded frequently enough in applications with significant user bases that
> this goes some of the distance.
>
> I can see your point though that there might be some merit in having a way
> to retrieve a current list, or at least telling whether the list you have
> is up-to-date. I don't know that I think it's a particularly pressing
> problem though (I think DNSSEC trust anchor distribution for the root zone
> is higher up the priority list, for example).
>
>
> Joe
>
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