Joe Abley wrote on 2023-05-01 14:15:> Yes -- some people (not me) would evidently describe a server that they
didn't receive a response from as lame. Such a situation could be a result of a bad configuration but also any number of other things, such as a network problem or a misconfigured firewall.
because the problem could be a middlebox on your end (edns botchery), a fiber cut, ddos protection on the far end, or other non-dns prime cause, nothing about unreachability or silence nec'ily has to do with the server.
to be a lame _delegation_ means some error or misconfiguration in the server. normally this means it's supposed to be authoritative but the zone expired or the operator forgot or similar. or there is no server there any more (it was decomm'd or renumbered). icmp host-unreach or port-unreach would be symptoms of that, if you can hear them.
if we need more terms let's invent. but this term has established meaning. -- P Vixie _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
