Question about experimental RDATA Records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cucp21$udo$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Thomas Mandl" <mandl.t at ikarus.at> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I wonder if anyone could help me with this one.
> 
> RFC1035 says, that some ResourceRecords are "experimental", e.g. the MB
> RDATA, MG RDATA, and so forth. (see RFC1035 page 13ff.)
> 
> Does this mean, they are not implemented in bind-9 or they are not (widely)
> used so far by Nameservers.

Most of those experiments failed.  These records are considered obsolete 
now.

They're probably still implementd in BIND, but I don't think any 
applications will ever try to look them up.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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