clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

On torsdag, feb 6, 2003, at 18:42 Europe/Stockholm, Stefan Paletta 
wrote:

> 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.

Do you have a pointer to this rule of theirs?

In many cases an NS is lame simply because no DNS server is listening 
on the IP address which is associated with the NS in question. I.e. 
that someone has moved the server without talking to the parent zone 
administrator.

   paf