On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 08:13:09PM +0000, Dan York wrote: > While I agree with this idea, I wonder if from a clarity of deployment > point of view, as well as a speed point of view, it would be easier to > divide this into two different documents: > > 1. Deprecate the ANY query > > 2. “Meta queries” should be behind some access control mechanism > > Is there anyone arguing that the ANY query should still be around? Or can > we agree that ANY is now a query that has outlived its usefulness and > needs to fade away?
I use QTYPE=ANY for testing and troubleshooting quite frequently, and would prefer to see it hidden behind an access control mechanism rather than disabled completely. (As an aside: I've often wondered why the DNS doesn't have *more* meta-query types, less extensive than ANY, such as a single type covering A and AAAA. Or, an EDNS OPT mechanism to request a list of desired types in addition to QTYPE to be returned in the additional section (subject to packet size, rate limiting, DNS cookie authentication, whatever). I would guess the absence of such conveniences to be the reason Mozilla decided to take their regrettable shortcut. It seems like such an obvious optimization, I'm guessing it was talked to death before I ever started working with the DNS and there were good reasons not to do it, but I don't actually know what they were.) -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
