Hi Kevin,

Given the earlier context with Joe, I can see why you chose this path, I 
appreciate
your feedback, and acknowledgment that a standards based solution could 
actually be useful.

Best,
Duane

> On Nov 22, 2025, at 05:28, Kevin P. Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025, at 21:54, John Levine wrote:
>> Nonetheless I agree with you that it's not the right tool here. All of
>> the existing uses of NOTIFY say "something happened so do a poll you
>> were planning to do, but do it sooner." EXPIRE seems rather unlike
>> that.
> 
> I had faint hope that the 'generalized' attribute of 'generalized NOTIFY' 
> would support use cases outside of the existing scopes :)
> 
> For what it's worth, PowerDNS Recursor already supports off-label usage of 
> NOTIFY, to indicate that the recursor should remove any cache entries it has 
> for zone named in the NOTIFY. Since this would of course be a DoS vector, 
> this is only accepted from configured sources (as noted in another branch of 
> the thread, from authoritative servers also operated by the recursor's 
> operator).
> 

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