[dns-operations] TC=1 with RA=0 from a recursive resolver

[Tony Finch]

bert hubert <bert.hubert at powerdns.com> wrote:
>
> On a philosophical note, the glibc position is defensible but since both
> Google DNS and dnsdist made the mistake of setting RA=RD *after* judging if
> the question merited a TC=0 response or not means it may be better to be
> 'liberal in what you accept'.  Others might make the same mistake.

Shouldn't RA be set independently of the query, purely based on the server
configuration? If I make a RD=0 query against a recursive server I should
get an RD=0 RA=1 response.

Tony.
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