query ip address

[Petr Špaček]

On 13.9.2017 23:27, Tom Samplonius via Unbound-users wrote:
> 
>   I haven’t seen a IP address in a MX record in the last 5 years.  In
> the 16 years since that was written, the email world has changed a lot.
>  Email systems are larger, and tend to run by email professionals who
> know the standards.  This did not happen:
> 
> It's reasonably clear what will happen to this protocol in the future.
> System administrators will continue to use dotted-decimal domain names.
> There will be occasional failures from other MTAs running under other
> DNS caches; the MTA implementors and the DNS implementors will react by
> adding support. Eventually, no matter what DNSEXT does, dotted-decimal
> domain names will be a de facto standard.
> 
> 
> And the DNSEXT working group never changed the MX standard.
> 
> 
>   Sometimes it might better to go with the Standard way of doing things.
>  You can’t keep adding non-standard cruft to your services, and expect a
> smooth lifecycle.

Oh yes, I very much agree.

Speaking with Knot Resolver leader hat on, this is not going to be
supported by Knot Resolver (unless there is a published standards-track
RFC, of course :-)).

Petr Špaček  @  CZ.NIC

> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>> On Sep 13, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Joe Williams <williams.joe at gmail.com
>> <mailto:williams.joe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to asking around on twitter I think we have the
>> why, https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/namedroppers/20000220195445-21265-qmail@cr-yp-to
>>
>> https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/908072827890405376
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Joe Williams <williams.joe at gmail.com
>> <mailto:williams.joe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks for finding that Tom! 
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Tom Samplonius
>>     <tom at samplonius.org <mailto:tom at samplonius.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         dnscache is a pretty weird.  From the webpage
>>         at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache.html
>>         <http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache.html> ...
>>
>>
>>         “dnscache handles dotted-decimal domain names internally,
>>         giving (e.g.) the domain name 192.48.96.2 an A record of
>>         192.48.96.2."
>>
>>
>>         So it looks like dnscache will return a the IP address back
>>         for any A queries for a IP address.  And it looks like it
>>         returns a basically infinite ttl.
>>
>>         Why do you need this behaviour?  I used to use dnscache many
>>         years ago, but dropped it when powerdns-recursor became
>>         available.  I never noticed this “feature”, and never had
>>         anything break when it went away.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>         On Sep 13, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Joe Williams
>>>         <williams.joe at gmail.com <mailto:williams.joe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Thanks for the reply Tom, I wish I knew why as well.  Right
>>>         now I am just trying to make my unbound config backwards
>>>         compatible to not break code that expects an answer for an IP
>>>         address.
>>>
>>>         On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Tom Samplonius
>>>         <tom at samplonius.org <mailto:tom at samplonius.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>             > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>>             > 10.36.129.10.         655360  IN      A       10.36.129.10
>>>
>>>
>>>               Looking at this answer, I’m not sure why anyone would
>>>             want this behaviour?
>>>
>>>               Is dnscache trying to dampen RFC1918 A queries by doing
>>>             this?
>>>
>>>
>>>             Tom