[dns-operations] *.de kicked out of service due to NXDOMAIN

[Florian Weimer]

* Patrick W. Gilmore:

> On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
>>> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de>
>>> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:34:53 +0000
>>>
>>> ... Unbound caches the NXDOMAIN per QTYPE. ...
>>
>> how bizarre.

BIND has per-QTYPE lameness, so it's not that strange, methinks.

> But useful in this case.
>
> Is it disallowed by standard?

Section 4.5 of RFC 4035 is somewhat self-contradictory, but recommends
against doing it.

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