clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 6:42 PM +0100 2003/02/06, Stefan Paletta wrote:
>
> >  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.
>
> 	Best practice?  No, I would disagree most vehemently on that.  If
> nsd is doing this, then I believe it needs to be fixed.  Handing out
> a referral to the root zone is no more work than handing out SERVFAIL.

nsd could be configured to either hand out a referral or send SERVFAIL.
bind9 will reply with REFUSED if the hints file is missing and it is
configured to be authoritative only.


	jakob