Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se> Fri, 11 May 2001 07:36 UTC
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:11:42 +0200
From: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>
To: Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@apnic.net>
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Subject: Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Bruce Campbell wrote: > ( Personal opinion is that is *should* know about itself, as most of the > cases we've seen where a nameserver doesn't know about itself have been > broken in other ways ) My experience is that there is no connection between having nameservers designed not to know about its own name and broken configuration. It is mostly big ISP's that have several nameservers for customers, of which maybe some is also nameserver for their own domain. Telia is a big ISP in Sweden. One of their domains are telia.com. They have several nameservers under telia.com, of which dns3.telia.com, dns4.telia.com, dns5.telia.com and others are not authoritative for telia.com. There are never any problem with that design. In our test of delegation we require that we can get an authoritative answer of the request for an A record of the nameserver name. If the resolver happens to give such an answer we accept that, or we explicitly query the nameservers of the name. Mats ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mats Dufberg +46-8-545 857 06 dufberg@nic-se.se fax: +46-8-545 857 29
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