Re: EDNS standard clarification

[Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>]

% On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Bill Manning wrote:
% 
% > 	I would expect the behaviour to be "NOTIMPL" instead of a
% > 	"silent" ignore. Its not a FORMERR, is it? :)
% 
% The problem I forsaw with something like that was what to do on getting
% the NOTIMPL reply back, if you sent out a query with (for example) 10 OPT
% attributes.  Unless you have something which indicates *which* of the 10
% you didn't recognize, the client has no way of knowing which ones to turn
% off, and turning all off just because one isn't implimented seems like a
% bad idea.

	So... perhaps the "right" thing is to update NOTIMPL with a
	array-index... :)  But for legecy code, the right thing is
	a "blanket" NOTIMPL.

--bill


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