----- Original Message ----- > From: "paul vixie" <vi...@isc.org>
> On 5/28/2012 11:52 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > > ... maybe a bit too much layer ten for my taste. ... > > on that, we're trying to improve. for example, we used to forego > features that some of us found repugnant, such as nxdomain remapping / > ad insertion. since the result was that our software was less relevant > but that there was no reduction in nxdomain remapping as a result of > BIND not providing it. To clarify that a bit... You're saying you used to decline to include in BIND the capability to break the Internet by returning things other than NXDOMAIN for names which do not exist... but now you're *ok* with breaking the internet, and BIND now does that? If that's what you mean, I'll explain to you why that's a bad layer 10 call. *Now*, you see, we no longer have a canonical Good Engineering Example to which we can point when yelling at people (and software vendors) which *do* permit that, to say "see? You shouldn't be doing that; it's bad." "The Web Is Not The Internet." Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
