[dns-operations] CloudFlare policy on ANY records changing

[Jared Mauch]

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud at ogud.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Casey Deccio <casey at deccio.net> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud at ogud.com> wrote:
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>> We will be depreciating support for ANY queries and return NOTIMP in the near future 
>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-dns-any-meta-query-type/
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>> ID proposing this behavior will be forthcoming 
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>> Be prepared...  Less than two years ago a prominent DNS service began denying ANY queries for a previous employer's domain, and some (important) emails were not delivered.  Historical measurements will help quantify potential issues, but certainly those are not comprehensive, and like anything, there will be breakage.
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>> I'm not suggesting it's not the right direction, but the change seems somewhat abrupt, and might result in some undesirable near-term effects.  Community support and publicity could help mitigate issues.
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>> Best regards,
>> Casey
> 
> By announcing this we are hoping that anyone running un-patched qmail will fix it.

I’m guessing there will be no change.

Even setting TC=1 will have issues as many people are behind devices that don’t do TC=1 right.

TL;DR: Netgear sends REFUSED in response to TCP queries

https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/273da18d3057

- Jared