[dns-operations] Change to BIND minimal-responses config option

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Fri Apr 21 16:14:42 UTC 2017


> On Apr 21, 2017, at 5:22 AM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps there's a good intermediate setting, where the server returns
> additional data related to records in the answer section (MX and SRV
> targets, etc.) but avoids populating the authority section.

Perhaps minimal-aa ?

I almost want a query where I (perhaps w/ cookie for auth) can do more
debugging work to ask the software “what are you thinking”.

I had previously set my name server to do minimal responses to reduce
bandwidth and load.

- Jared



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