On 2012-02-27, at 19:49, Paul Vixie wrote: > On 2012-02-28 12:27 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: >> At 13:35 -0500 2/27/12, Hector Santos wrote: >>> If it doesn't already exist or not considered in the past as an >>> unfeasible concept, I am interest in seeing if this is something >>> worth pursuing. >> >> One (not the only, Ohta replied with another) of the oft-cited >> obstacles is the presence of only one RCODE field in the packet. (What >> if one query would be NXDOMAIN and the other has an answer?) > > indeed, this is why multiple queries were not supported in the original > DNS, and it's why EDNS doesn't have it either.
Isn't that really an argument against multiple responses being carried in the same packet, rather than multiple queries? I'll observe that there are exciting amplification opportunities in a world where a single packet could trigger multiple large responses, though :-) Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
