On 1/30/24, 09:57, "DNSOP on behalf of Roy Arends" <[email protected] on 
behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>    > On 30 Jan 2024, at 12:57, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    > Related, what to do when the ipv4hints are not the same as the 
> corresponding A RRSet?
>
>    IMHO, potential unsigned glue records from elsewhere are inferior to 
> address records in a signed DELEG record. If a validator supports DELEG, and 
> has information such as Nameserver names and name server addresses, it should 
> ignore glue and NS records.

The question of "what happens when two sources differ on information" is a good 
one.

In "Clarifications to the DNS Specification" a trustworthiness scale is in the 
"Ranking data" section. (That's RFC 2181, section 5.4.1. for those that address 
via numbers.)  Nevertheless, I've see aggressive resolvers rely on glue records 
when higher ranking data led to no response (query went out, no response within 
a set time out) or was inclusive (meaning no address resource record sets could 
be found).  "Aggressive" meant that the resolver tried all tricks, 
protocol-following or not, to get an answer back to the requester.

What I mean is - it would be good to give a crisp, specific prescription for 
this case, but history shows that implementers can be crafty.  I don't know if 
that is better or worse for operations though.  In operations it would be good 
if the events were predictable (meets expected behavior) but it is also good if 
we limit faults.


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