clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:42:45PM +0100,
>  Stefan Paletta <stefanp at cabal1.com> wrote
>  a message of 25 lines which said:
>
> > 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.

You may wish to refer to the dnsop archives, and the 'Should a nameserver
know about itself?' thread, starting at:

        http://www.cafax.se/dnsop/maillist/2001-05/msg00009.html

( I am not expressing an opinion of the RIPE NCC, just work I did at my
  previous employer )

> I am not involved in the daily operations of the '.fr' registry but,
> AFAIK, the ZoneCheck tool (check it out yourself
> <URL:http://www.nic.fr/zonecheck/>) requires a referral only if your
> server claims to be recursive.

Is this 'recursive for the zone being delegated' (somewhat bad) or
'recursive' in general ?

Regards,

-- 
                             Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
                   Systems/Network Engineer                             NCC
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