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If you read the article to the end you'll see they say there is indeed a business case: > Attempting to handle ANY queries creates enormous complexity in our D
by yasth 12y ago
If you read the article to the end you'll see they say there is indeed a business case:
> Attempting to handle ANY queries creates enormous complexity in our DNS server code base. It's almost impossible to generate a proper response, anyway. Consider load-balancing, geoip, CNAME flattening features, and on-the-fly answer generation.
It isn't like they are saying no one should ever implement them, just that they aren't because of low utility in their environment vs relatively high cost.
- fapjacks 12y agoYes, you're right, but A) Cloudflare is in a position to significantly influence the behavior of others and B) low utility is not the same thing as not useful. One of my past lives would have been enormously more difficult without this specific capability. Generating a useful response also is not necessarily the same thing as generating a proper response. If there were something to take the place of ANY queries, I think it wouldn't be so bad.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago> If there were something to take the place of ANY queries, I think it wouldn't be so bad. But there are. Make the individual record type calls you need, and failing that, use a "axfr" transfers if you're permitted to based on IP security rules.
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