To:
"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Date:
Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:07:38 +1100
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Your message of "06 Feb 2001 00:09:12 -0000." <20010206000912.28897.qmail@cr.yp.to>
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Subject:
Re: Bogus nic.fr behavior
Dan, I don't always agree with you but I will on this one. Mark > 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 -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com