On 2012-11-23, at 06:28, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > Joe Abley <joe.ab...@icann.org> wrote: > >> I think you skipped a step -- you need to find the zone cut before you >> can find the nameservers responsible for the zone. I guess I do that by >> asking for blah.ip6.arpa/IN/SOA and checking the authority section, but >> what if the authority section is empty because of software choices in >> some nameserver? > > Are name servers allowed to leave out the SOA record? It would break > negative cacheing.
I was being pessimistic. If that authority-section SOA was frequently missing (e.g. for devices behind home gateways) would anything break from the perspective of stub resolvers? I can't think of anything; hence I assume it's broken. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
