[dns-operations] DNS ANY requests / UltraDNS

[Tony Finch]

bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> wrote:
>
> ANY queries serve a purpose (we use them to get A and AAAA addresses for
> nameservers in one go).

Wow, I think you have found a case where ANY queries are not likely to
lead to bugs! :-) The main problems with ANY are due to cache effects (but
you are talking to authoritative servers) and from lack of CNAME/DNAME
alias processing (but NS records pointing to aliases are broken anyway).

Tony.
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