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Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Mon Feb 10 12:40:54 CET 2003
At 9:38 PM +0100 2003/02/09, Stefan Paletta wrote: > [please do not explicitly send copies of followups to me] Roger. > The ability to hand out referrals has an administrative overhead and > is thus more prone to errors. The recent misconfiguration of NS.EU.NET > is a good example for that. It does require more network traffic, yes. But the specific IP addresses should not be paid attention to by anyone -- all they should record is that they got a response that basically said "Sorry, I don't have this information -- if you like, you may try asking this question of these machines". > Most importantly, responding with a SERVFAIL is RFC compliant. I am not yet convinced of this. Yes, I've read the namedroppers traffic. But so far as I know, this issue has never been put into a ID, BCP, or standards-track RFC. Therefore, a very small community of people have discussed this issue in very isolated circumstances, and IMO this has not received sufficient review to be considered "RFC compliant". > Are you suggesting that different demands for conformance should be > applied to root/TLD nameservers vs. others? Depends on what you're testing against. > There is btw. nothing in the announcements of and documentation for > NSD to suggest that it might not be designed or fit for use as a > general-purpose authoritative nameserver. Understood. However, obviously people are now mis-using it in this fashion (perhaps even at my behest, as a result of my presentation at LISA 2002), otherwise the original report would never have been generated. Therefore, I believe that making this point explicit is a very good idea. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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