[Pdns-users] HINFO "RFC8482" ""

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello Leo,

On 21 Mar 2019, at 14:32, Leo Vandewoestijne wrote:

> 2 days ago PowerDNS 4.2.0 RC1 came out.

Yes.

> 2 months ago RFC 8482 became effective.

No, it was published. It becomes effective when it is implemented by 
developers and enabled by administrators.

> Now first I looked at where I would need change code to just acomplish 
> a 'HINFO "RFC8482" ""' reply.

Which is a terrible thing to do, especially when DNSSEC is involved.

> So just a grep at "ANY" made me realize it's a whole lot of codebase 
> that could be cleaned up
> (in all the seperate backends).

No - dropping support for ‘ANY’ DNS queries would involve no changes 
to the backends. PowerDNS uses ANY queries internally, even for DNS 
queries that are not ANY.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/