Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

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>For those that aren't familar with our DNS operations, we manage in an
>automated fashion the reverse delegations for the Asia Pacific Region.
>
>We've assumed (in writing one of our automated delegation tests) that a
>given nameserver is 'responding' if it knows about itself, ie, can supply,
>when queried, an A/AAAA/A6 record and/or a PTR record for its own name/IP
>address.
>
>Unfortunately, we're running into a number of delegations that are failing
>as the given nameservers fail both of the above tests, ie, the given
>nameserver cannot supply any information about itself.
>
>Is the assumption that a nameserver should have information about itself
>correct?

	if possible could you give us more specific goals/scenarios during
	domain/prefix registration?

	in many of IPv6 sites they operate IPv4-only machines to serve
	AAAA/IPv6 PTR records.  i'm wondering if this raises problem against
	your assumption, and curious about the exact scenario you have.

itojun