On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:44 AM Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> Hi Tony, > > On 22 May 2020, at 08:47, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > > > John R Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > >> > >> A week or two ago I scannned TLD zone files to see how many signed A > and AAAA > >> records there were. Quite a lot, most looks to be orphan glue in > Afilias > >> zones that they didn't delete after the registered zone went away. > > > > I vaguely remember a policy change in .com and .net years ago when they > > stopped including orphan glue in the zones. Was this to do with prep work > > for DNSSEC? I'm slightly surprised .org didn't follow suit. > > I think the change you remember was a change in the way that responses > were returned from the Atlas nameserver. Once upon a time, glue was > returned in the answer section alongside a referral. The change I am > thinking of changed that behaviour to follow other implementations, > returning glue in the additional section instead. > Here's the announcement of that change from Verisign (January 2010): https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-January/004841.html Shumon.
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