> On 8 Mar 2023, at 11:16, Evan Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 11:15:55AM +0100, Peter Thomassen wrote:
>> Oops, touché! I stand corrected. Thanks, Mark.
>> 
>> What I meant is rrtype 0. I used the wrong mnemonic.*
> 
> IMHO, you're almost definitely correct that NULL (type 10) would be safe to
> use for this. Type 0, thought, would not - it's used internally by name
> servers in ways that could be pretty difficult to untangle.

NULL would also be difficult to use as they can exist in the wild.

> I would lean toward using a newly allocated type code, though, because I'm
> 100% sure that wouldn't cause any conflict with existing implementations,
> and I'm only 99.7% sure that NULL wouldn't.
> 
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