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Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Fri, 01 June 2001 00:18 UTC

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To: Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
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From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Subject: Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
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> There is also the issue of educating administrators on this methodology,
> which isn't the way that most forward delegation is carried out (e.g.
> one of nominum.com's name servers is ns-ext.vix.com, which doesn't fit
> in the "use only name servers in the domain to respond authoritatively
> for that domain" model.

	As a model for good DNS delegation it is overkill.

	A just as robust model is "a nameserver should be a official
	(not stealth) server for the zone it lives in".  ns-ext.vix.com
	fits this model as it is a server for vix.com.

	This leads to NS chains of length 1.

	Mark
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