To:
Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@apnic.net>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
itojun@iijlab.net
Date:
Wed, 09 May 2001 15:44:42 +0900
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bruce.campbell's message of Wed, 09 May 2001 16:33:11 +1000. <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105091625580.43413-100000@julubu.staff.apnic.net>
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Subject:
Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
>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