Dropping external recursive requests

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Dec 3 23:52:38 UTC 2008


In message <OF9D331B84.0E5B1574-ONC1257514.00803FD0-C1257514.00804D81 at sistinf.i
t>, Alberto Colosi/SI/RM/GSI/it writes:
> why not? beter handled by isc and done in a clean way then 1.000.000 of 
> dirty ways as these ;)

	Please go read RFC 5358.  No where in there does it say to
	drop responses.  If we though that dropping queries was a
	good idea it would have been explicitely documented in RFC
	5358.  Not offering recursive service means returning
	REFUSED.
 
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