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To: <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From: "Christopher Ambler" <cambler-ietf@iodesign.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:25:34 -0700
Reply-To: "Christopher Ambler" <cambler-ietf@iodesign.com>
Sender: owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Nameserver MUST HAVE IP

> I never understand the sense of the NSI requirements and the need for host
> handles. In Germany, we have more then 4,000,000 DE-domains, we only
> require the IP of the DNS, if the DNS is in the domain (eg. DNS
> "ns3.knipp.de" is responsible for the domain "knipp.de").

We take it a bit further for .Web, and require them when the name servers
are in any other .Web domain, since we'd rather be careful and avoid loops.
Sure, it could be resolved at build time, but we're lazy :-)

(e.g. foo.web resolves with ns.bar.web, but bar.web resolves with ns.foo.web)

Christopher


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