RFC Errata
RFC 1034, "Domain names - concepts and facilities", November 1987
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.