[dns-operations] A interesting result to a AAAA query

[Paul Vixie]

> From: "George Barwood" <george.barwood at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:11:15 -0000
> 
> Is the answer section with A records legal?

no.

> I would expect A records to be included in the additional section,
> but it could be argued that the A records "answer the question".

it cannot be so argued.

> Regardless, I think a liberal recursor will ignore which section records
> appear in, so it may work ok.

it can be worked around, but it's not ok.