[dns-operations] I missed the announcement: .ARPA has been deleted

[Mark Andrews]

In message <55900.1266361898 at nsa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
> > From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:34:43 +0100
> > 
> > Increasingly, you also want to know when you send an A query if an AAAA
> > RRset exists (or vice versa).  So let's add a query flag which means
> > "send me some interesting signed NSECs of your choice if the answer is
> > not a delegation", and we've enough data to solve both issues.  We've
> > also added something of value to DNSSEC. 8-)
> 
> :-).
> 
> we missed the boat terribly in RFC 1886.  we should have made "A" part of
> the additional data for qtype "AAAA", or added a new meta-qtype, "ADDR",
> which would return all internet address types in the answer section.  the
> DNSIND meeting where this RFC was evaluated was among my first, and i had
> not yet found my voice within IETF, and so i kept mostly mum, big mistake.
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Adding it as additional would have been fine.

We can still do that now with signed data as that can be promoted
to answer if it validates as secure.

Mark
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