Robert Edmonds wrote:
> There is an analogous case with compression pointers themselves, which
> 1035 requires point to a "prior occurance [sic] of the same name".  But
> BIND allowed pointers to point to later occurrences, and later
> implementations had to make the same allowance for compatibility
> reasons.

Maybe such allowances had to be made at one point, but they are not
needed today.  BIND 9 has been rejecting compression pointers to
"later occurrences" for 15 years now, so any implementation sending
them has surely been weeded out by now.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, g...@araneus.fi

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