Hi,

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Alain Durand wrote:
> > "Substantially" - because of the glue question and the truncation 
> > issue in DNS, you can't specify that the answer "is" the same.
> >
> > Another case to consider is the the query type any.  If my v4 
> > recursive server does not share the same memory (RAM) as my v6 server, 
> > chances are strong that the caches in the two will differ over time.  
> > QTYPE ANY queries ask for "what you have" about a name, not the 
> > complete data at the name (as far as an authoritative server is 
> > concerned).  It's reasonable to consider that the exact responses from 
> > the two servers will differ, regardless of the fact that they are on 
> > different network layers.
> 
> Thank you for this clarification I now understand you point.  We
> might want to add text that only focus on those issues. This is an
> operational issue that is somehow different from the one described
> in the transport guideline document. I think it should go into the
> ipv6-dns-issues document, which is the one you commented on first,
> so I withdraw my previous comment.

Does this need to be stated? As Rob explained, QTYPE=* is a beast
that's not really used except by folks playing with "dig" and
"nslookup"; the resolvers don't use them, so we might not need to care
about them?

I haven't edited ipv6-dns-issues on this subject, but if there are 
concrete suggestions which do not conflict with the transport 
guidelines document, shoot! :)

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