[dns-operations] Reporting glue as authoritive data -- Bug!

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Jan 25 12:05:29 UTC 2008


* Lutz Donnerhacke:

> I assume the DNS implementation on ultradns is buggy.  It respond
> the glue record in the answer section instead of the additional.

It's not ideal, but the same thing would happen if the server was a
recursor and dns1.fqdn.org/IN/A is in its cache.  So the client needs
to deal with this situation anyway.  If it doesn't, it is simply
buggy.

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