RFC Errata
RFC 1034, "Domain names - concepts and facilities", November 1987
Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 1101, RFC 1183, RFC 1348, RFC 1876, RFC 1982, RFC 2065, RFC 2181, RFC 2308, RFC 2535, RFC 4033, RFC 4034, RFC 4035, RFC 4343, RFC 4035, RFC 4592, RFC 5936, RFC 8020, RFC 8482, RFC 8767, RFC 9471
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: int
See Also: RFC 1034 w/ inline errata
Errata ID: 4740
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Robert Edmonds
Date Reported: 2016-07-11
Verifier Name: Warren Kumari (Ops AD)
Date Verified: 2018-04-01
Section 4.3.2 says:
6. Using local data only, attempt to add other RRs which may be
useful to the additional section of the query. Exit.
It should say:
6. Using local data only, attempt to add other RRs which may be
useful to the additional section of the response. Exit.
Notes:
Changed "query" to "response".
Section 4.3.2 describes the algorithm used by nameservers to answer queries. I.e., a nameserver receives a query from a client, and then it performs this algorithm in order to construct a response to send to the client.
Steps 1, 3, and 5 of this algorithm talk about setting fields or bits in the response, or about adding resource records to the answer section of the response, but then step 6 says to add resource records to the additional section of the *query*. This doesn't make any sense, because the server is constructing a response to a query that it's already received. "Response" must have been intended instead.