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Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 09 May 2001 14:55 UTC

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> The only people this doesn't work with are a few DNS broker types who
> somehow have formed the opinion that the delegation should happen first,
> and that after it happens, then they will set up their servers to handle
> the zone.

i run the registrar/registry for a half dozen cctlds.  there are registrants
who keep insisting on this.  i have canned email in an elisp macro to tell
them they are welcome to insist all they wish.  they are also welcome to
register domains.  their choice.

randy

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