On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:28 PM, <internet-dra...@ietf.org> wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations Working > Group of the IETF. > > Title : DNS Terminology > Authors : Paul Hoffman > Andrew Sullivan > Kazunori Fujiwara > Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-00.txt > Pages : 20 > Date : 2015-04-14 > > I advise a small correction on the last sentence of this paragraph:
> Authoritative server -- A system that responds to DNS queries with > information about zones for which it has been configured to answer > with the AA flag in the response header set to 1. It is a server > that has authority over one or more DNS zones. Note that it is > possible for an authoritative server to respond to a query without > the parent zone delegating authority to that server. Authoritative > servers also provide "referrals", usually to child zones delegated > from them; these referrals have the AA bit set to 0 and come with > referral data in the Additional section. Referral data is present in both the authority section and (if needed) the additional section. It's perfectly possible for a referral to not contain an additional section (sans OPT etc) if none of the NS records in the authority require glue address records. My suggestion: remove the mention of only the additional section (descriptions of referrals are provided elsewhere in the doc). Or say "and come with referral data in the authority and (if needed) the additional section. Shumon.
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