Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > > I'm not totally convinced, but I can certainly see the argument. If > we added to the text I proposed something like, "Many people use the > unqualified term 'referral' to mean only a downward referral," would > that help?
Well, I would say, s/many people/Paul Mockapetris/ :-) > > answer the query. I have also seen the term "implicit referral" meaning > > the authority section from a recursive response, since the idea was that a > > downstream cache might use those records to answer future queries more > > efficiently (though doing that is no longer considered safe). > > Hmm. It seems like we ought to add that point about implicit > referral. Oh, actually, (now I re-read my old definition properly) that term is used in RFC 2308 section 6. > I wonder how this is related to the "partial referral" Mark > is talking about (see elsewhere in this thread). They look similar but have different AA bits, if I understand correctly. An implicit referral comes from the cache whereas Mark's CNAME plus referral comes from authoritative data. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode North Utsire, South Utsire: Northerly or northeasterly 5 or 6, decreasing 4 at times. Moderate or rough. Wintry showers. Good occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
