On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> A couple of critical points to keep in mind here. First is that RFC 1886
> (the ADDR spec) already defined a just-include rule for additional data,
> and draft-hall-qtype-addr-01 just tries to optimize the existing rule.

Whether this optimization is appropriate is a different subject..

> Second is that getting incomplete additional-data is going to be
> unavoidable -- perhaps a legacy cache only returns the A RRs in subsequent
> responses, one of which goes to your host. Given these considerations,
> incomplete additional-data is just something that clients are going to
> have to deal with regardless of what we do here. It's a fact of life.

I'm not sure if we have to resign to the fact of incomplete
additional-data.

In your example, wouldn't the legacy cache not be able to handle the
AAAA record query in the first place if it wouldn't return the AAAA
records from its cache -- I don't somehow this particular failure
mode.

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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