clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 7:47 PM +0100 2003/02/07, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
>
> >  if you do not include a hints file in nsd's database, it will return
> >  SERVFAIL.

Actually (having burnt my fingers on this one), you really do not want to
configure any zones into nsd (including '.') unless you are authoritative
for those zones.  Since nsd is (by design) an authoritative-only
nameserver, any zones configured will be answered authoritatively.

> 	Are you saying that it will hand out a referral if this
> information is configured into the database?

nsd will return authoritative NXDOMAIN with authority of '.' on unknown
queries if '.' is configured.  This is probably not what is wanted in most
cases.

Regards,

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