From: Matthijs Mekking Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:23:04 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Document NS queries are excempt from minimal-responses X-Git-Tag: v9.19.8~14^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7b477f6ea419d805f13a0187e26b17581dc572d;p=thirdparty%2Fbind9.git Document NS queries are excempt from minimal-responses Also document that DNSKEY, DS, CDNSKEY, and CDS never do additional section processing. --- diff --git a/doc/arm/reference.rst b/doc/arm/reference.rst index bf59f65c398..cb2bd6b71b4 100644 --- a/doc/arm/reference.rst +++ b/doc/arm/reference.rst @@ -2153,11 +2153,16 @@ Boolean Options This option controls the addition of records to the authority and additional sections of responses. Such records may be included in - responses to be helpful to clients; for example, NS or MX records may + responses to be helpful to clients; for example, MX records may have associated address records included in the additional section, obviating the need for a separate address lookup. However, adding these records to responses is not mandatory and requires additional database lookups, causing extra latency when marshalling responses. + + Responses to DNSKEY, DS, CDNSKEY, and CDS requests will never have + optional additional records added. Responses to NS requests will + always have additional section processing. + :any:`minimal-responses` takes one of four values: - ``no``: the server is as complete as possible when generating