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From:
"Marco d'Itri" <md@linux.it>
Date:
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:35:05 +0100
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<2147.981465400@brandenburg.cs.mu.OZ.AU>; from kre@munnari.OZ.AU on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:16:40PM +0700
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Subject:
Re: Bogus nic.fr behavior
On Feb 06, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote: >>From where did this startling variation on accepted practice arrive? >All servers, when queried, should either return an answer (doing the >recursive thing if they want to, and that was requested in the query) >or should return a referral to a better server to ask. When no other People are supposed to send queries to an authoritative server only for the zones it's authoritative for. Can you explain why the server should return a referral for other queries? This is broken behaviour anyway, and not replying may dissuade people using it as their own recursive name server (which it is not). -- ciao, Marco