Message-Id: <chlFa0qSTRk783etZG@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 16:17:20 +0100 (BST)
From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Possible Cool idea...
In-Reply-To: <6625.767887436@seins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Excerpts from mail: 2-May-94 Re: Possible Cool idea... Ruediger
Volk@deins.info (1056)
> canonical DNS error alert!!!
> Query type NAY returns ONLY those RRs for the queried name that the server
> happens to know; if the the responding server is NOT authoritative
> for the name in general only the SUBset of currently cached RRs under
> that name are returned.
> Only if you happen to get an authoritative response, you can know that you got
> really all RRs; note that with the currently deployed DNS software there
> is usually no easy (e.g. single query/response) way to force getting an
> authoritative response.
Ahh phooey! :-(