On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 15:50 +0000, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2021, at 5:23 AM, Peter van Dijk <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > My suggestion (seriously): prohibit NSEC and RRSIG queries.
> 
> Prohibiting queries is pointless. Systems query freely, even if stupidly. ( 
> Have you ever see the query traffic at the root servers? :-) )

Yep! Vladimir also corrected my wording there :)

> A possibly-better option would be to define what the responses to pointless 
> queries could be. Given that we know that different authoritative server 
> software already offer different answers for this particular query, there is 
> no need to define just one answer, but maybe list a set of answers (with 
> logic for each).

Codifying current ambiguity into better specified ambiguity, while not
reducing answer variability, feels like a waste of RFC (update)
bandwidth to me.

> Or, we can just ignore it again until it comes up again fiveish years from 
> now. Any attempted update to RFC 4035 will cause some people to squawk even 
> if it makes the intent clearer.
> 

The earlier thread deemed both variants legitimate, in which case there
is nothing to do. My reading of the current text is that the delegation
response is the right one; and, as stated, my preference if we change
anything is to, now worded better, make these queries pointless and
allow servers to respond with absolutely nothing useful to them.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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