Re: SRV records and cache poisoning (full)

That's the approach that makes most sense to me, too, since the AA bit
covers only the first RR or RRset anyway in responses from
authoritative nameservers; the rest of answer records are not
guaranteed to have this property. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help.=20

On 6/7/05, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Also, since some caching servers will pass the initial response from the
> authoritative server straight through, stub resolvers should *not* cache
> anything other than the answer to the query they originally sent.
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> If the records in the authority or additional section are cacheable, the
> stub resolver should rely on the caching server to cache them. So when
> the stub goes on to look these up, they'll already be in the server's
> cache and the resolution should be quick.
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> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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