Simon Kelley wrote:
> Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > i disagree.  the existence of an option that pre-empts queries for
> > one-label qnames (and the comment at the top of the example config file
> > encouraging one to turn it on) harms interoperability.
> 
> There should be a warning, certainly. What do you think about moving to
> returning NODATA? I really don't want stuff existing downstream caching
> the idea that the whole .com domain doesn't exist.

well, NODATA is better than NXDOMAIN.

> > i'd recommend deprecating and removing the domain-needed option
> > altogether but if you're not going to do that i'd at least make the
> > filtering logic conditional.  from looking at the source it appears
> > qtype=NS is exempted from the filter, maybe you could invert the logic
> > and make it apply only to qtype=A and perhaps qtype=AAAA.
> > 
> I'm tempted by the A/AAAA only solution, the alternative is to add DS to
> the list of RRtypes exempted. Any others I've not thought of?

DNSKEY, SOA, TXT, MX, certainly others...

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmo...@debian.org



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