To:
Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
Cc:
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Mark.Andrews@nominum.com
Date:
Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:00:37 +1000
In-reply-to:
Your message of "Thu, 31 May 2001 12:29:09 +0200." <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10105311148580.26280-100000@x17.ripe.net>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
> There is also the issue of educating administrators on this methodology, > which isn't the way that most forward delegation is carried out (e.g. > one of nominum.com's name servers is ns-ext.vix.com, which doesn't fit > in the "use only name servers in the domain to respond authoritatively > for that domain" model. As a model for good DNS delegation it is overkill. A just as robust model is "a nameserver should be a official (not stealth) server for the zone it lives in". ns-ext.vix.com fits this model as it is a server for vix.com. This leads to NS chains of length 1. Mark -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com