clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

[Stefan Paletta <]

All,

good to see nsd make progress (played with it a litte while ago, but
tinydns continues to serve me best).

I understand that nsd (as most non-BIND servers) returns SERVFAIL for
questions for which it it does have neither authoritative nor non-
authoritative data (i.e. it is lame) and that this behaviour is RFC-
conformant and certainly best-practice for authoritative-only servers.

Some TLD registries, however, make unreasonable demands regarding the
behaviour of servers to which they delegate zones. Most notably the
.fr and .it registries, which apparently demand that servers return a
(non-authoritative!, in the case of .it) referral to the root servers
when they are lame.
These demands are highly questionable -to say the least- and are hard
and sometimes impossible to follow for users of at least tinydns and
nsd.

I was wondering if RIPE or a group from the RIPE community might
appeal to those registries and try to make them stop acting stupid.

-Stefan
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