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Deprecating the DNS ANY meta-query type

What's this blog post about?

The Domain Name System (DNS) continues to evolve with new developments and resource records types being added regularly. One such record type, DNS ANY meta-query, is being deprecated due to its lack of justified uses and the complexity it adds to DNS server code bases. ANY queries are not widely used by real world software, except for unpatched versions of qmaild and Firefox version 36.0 to 36.0.1. The decision to phase out ANY queries is supported by examples from other operators who have limited or disabled them in the past with minimal impact on Internet users.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
March 6, 2015

Author(s)
Marek Majkowski, Ólafur Guðmundsson

Word count
631

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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