<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" target="_blank">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If I as the slave reject the unknown RRTYPE at that point, then I have<br>
to fail the zone transfer. Now, the zone is broken compared to what<br>
the zone administrator wanted in two ways. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not quite, it's out of date - but not broken. That's much better. Imagine accepting a DNAME but not occluding - it would be terrible to serve it. Much better to refuse the transfer, use the stale version of the zone, and let an administrator decide what's best. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On the slave, the zone is not up to date and will eventually fail because of<br>
the inability to transfer. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>It needn't.</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div>Colm</div>
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