To:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Date:
6 Feb 2001 00:09:12 -0000
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Subject:
Bogus nic.fr behavior
Servers (as opposed to caches) should not have root information unless they are root servers. Caches will never ask for the information; and there's a cost to copying the information and worrying about keeping it up to date. These are not new observations. Unfortunately, the .fr administrators won't delegate to servers that don't have the current root NS records and corresponding A records. This is not an isolated example. They also insist on TCP service even if you don't have any big records, and 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa PTR records, and various other server behaviors that are not relevant to DNS service. Where does this disease come from? Even if the .fr administrators are confused about how DNS works, why do they care what other servers do? ---Dan