clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers
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Jakob Schlyter
jakob at crt.se
Fri Feb 7 19:47:58 CET 2003
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:58 PM +0100 2003/02/07, Jakob Schlyter wrote: > > > nsd could be configured to either hand out a referral or send SERVFAIL. > > It should be configured to hand out a referral. if you do not include a hints file in nsd's database, it will return SERVFAIL. > > bind9 will reply with REFUSED if the hints file is missing and it is > > configured to be authoritative only. > > Are you sure? For which version of BIND 9? My understanding is > that they had a pre-compiled list of the root servers built into the > source code, and that this would be used to generate the initial > "hints" zone, thus allowing you to avoid having this file. Indeed, I > wouldn't be surprised at all if the built-in data over-rode the file, > but maybe that's going too far. if you set up bind9 with a authoritative-only view it will return REFUSED. in a "normal" configuration, it will use pre-compiled root-hints. jakob
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