Dick Franks wrote: >> So, there is no specification to mention queries with >> QDCOUNT>1, either informatively, optionaly or normatively.
>> Then, 3425 titled "Obsoleting IQUERY" updated 1035. >> As such, after 3425, QDCOUNT nomatively must always be 1.
The last statement is informatively and normatively mistaken. The counterexample is to be found in RFC8490(5.4):
Not up to date. OK. Thanks. But, my statements are enough to deny the original statement by Ted as if 1034 had admitted standard queries with QDCOUNT>1 and another statement by Joe: > But we know that those are old documents that lack normative > clarity. w.r.t. normative status of standard queries. As Mark and I stated:
It does not prohibit extended query forms be they a different QDCOUNT for QUERY, a new opcode which supports multiple queries. > Nor does it prohibit protocol extentions to allow standard
> queries have QDCOUNT>1, modifying 1034/5 is fine but possibility/existence of such modifications can not be a supporting fact for a false statement that 1034 had admitted standard queries with QDCOUNT>1. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop