rfc6761 compliance
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
Fri Sep 11 15:54:00 UTC 2015
A. Schulze via Unbound-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the RFC 6761 give some advise how caching DNS servers SHOULD
> handle queries for reserved domains. Mostly it say
> "do not send queries to the root name servers"
>
> ... point 4 in any case ...
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.2 ( domain "test." )
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.4 ( domain "invalid." )
>
> looks like unbound don't follow that "SHOULD" recommendations.
> it this a miss-configuration on my side ?
I am also curious why these domains are not handled specially by Unbound
as RFC 6761 recommends. Interestingly, BIND has the exact same behavior
as Unbound for these two domains. (See https://bugs.debian.org/55032
for details.)
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Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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