Hi Michael,

On 7 Nov 2025, at 16:50, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:

>> So
>> this is an example of a chained resolver processing a query.
> 
> I'm not familiar with such a configuration; I guess it's a forwarders thing?

It's usually a forwarder with a cache thing. 

>> 3. Change resolver behaviour. Resolver B SHOULD return a more useful
>> signal than SERVFAIL, maybe with an EDE or something. Resolver A SHOULD
>> avoid retrying if it receives such a signal. This would avoid the
>> behaviour Mark is concerned about in this draft, but would also clean
>> up other uses of the hostname ".". The camel is slightly sad, but
>> perhaps it's worth it to avoid the cost of retries for all the cases
>> where "." is used in place of a real hostname to mean "not provided".
> 
> Can we do both?
> Return NS ., but also EDE?

The job of the resolver is to follow a referral, not to return it. 


Joe

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