Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se> Sat, 12 May 2001 20:32 UTC

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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 22:07:56 +0200
From: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>
To: Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> >	non-authoritative
> >	SOA mismatches across supplied nameservers
> >	NS listing mismatches across supplied nameservers (both what they
> >		supply and whats in the actual zone file)
>
> How tolerant are you of transient mismatches? One would expect them
> during zone updates.

Speaking of the SE TLD, we always reject updates where we find any
difference in SOA serial, SOA mail address, NS records or A records
corresponding to necessary glue records between any of the nameservers.


Mats

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