On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 14:48, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > because IXFR and NOTIFY and UPDATE use serial numbers, the DNS protocol > itself is aware of serial numbers. i hope that any recognition of > non-traditional serial numbers will be an optional addition to the > RRSERIAL response, and that if a zone has no actual serial number (so, > it cannot participate in IXFR, NOTIFY, and UPDATE) the RRSERIAL value > will just be a magic number like zero, or just missing altogether. > Magic numbers are messy. Zero-length option preferred, same as the outbound request. Need explicit statement somewhere that zero-length response means that IXFR, NOTIFY, and UPDATE are not supported. Not keen on the implementation-specific blob idea, which is of little use to the general user. Implementers and power users will already have more appropriate debugging tools. --Dick _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
