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Extended DNS Errors
RFC 8914

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2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "D. Lawrence": changed name from "David Lawrence" to "D. Lawrence", changed affiliation from "Oracle + Dyn" to "Salesforce", cleared country (was "US"), changed …
Changed author "D. Lawrence": changed name from "David Lawrence" to "D. Lawrence", changed affiliation from "Oracle + Dyn" to "Salesforce", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "4" to "5"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Hardaker": changed name from "Wes Hardaker" to "W. Hardaker", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "3" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "R. Arends": changed name from "Roy Arends" to "R. Arends", changed order from "2" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "E. Hunt": changed name from "Evan Hunt" to "E. Hunt", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Kumari": changed name from "Warren Kumari" to "W. Kumari", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2020-10-26
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8914
2020-10-23
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8914, changed abstract to 'This document defines an extensible method to return additional information about …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8914, changed abstract to 'This document defines an extensible method to return additional information about the cause of DNS errors.  Though created primarily to extend SERVFAIL to provide additional information about the cause of DNS and DNSSEC failures, the Extended DNS Errors option defined in this document allows all response types to contain extended error information.  Extended DNS Error information does not change the processing of RCODEs.', changed pages to 13, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-10-23, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2020-10-23
(System) RFC published