clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

At 3:33 PM +0100 2003/02/07, Bruce Campbell wrote:

>  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 read through this entire thread.  It doesn't seem to have 
anything to do with whether or not an authoritative-only server 
should respond with a referral to the root zone when asked a question 
that it is not authoritative for.

	So far, the best argument I've seen for returning anything else, 
is for returning a SERVFAIL, in 
<http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2002/msg00530.html>.

	However, I am not yet convinced.  IMO, if I ask a server a 
question and it gives me a root referral, then I know that name is 
not served by that machine.  If it gives me a SERVFAIL instead, then 
I am left wondering just how b0rken it is, and whether or not it 
should be ignored for all future queries of any type or question.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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