Subject: draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-07.txt: 2.2 AXFR response

From: Mark Andrews <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:08:57 +1100

An AXFR client MUST be able to react to no AXFR response Messages from
the server. An AXFR server MAY elect to silently discard the AXFR
query but this is only RECOMMENDED if the server has reasons to deduce
that the query was sent maliciously.

	So a client in expected to detect when the server has silently
	discarded a messages?  How is it supposed to detect this?
	Wait 1 minute, 10, 60, a day, a week, a month, a year.

	A server MUST respond to a request over TCP.  There is no
	retry with TCP.  A client can potentially wait indefinately
	for a response.

	Mark
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