clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 4:58 PM +0100 2003/02/07, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
>
> >  nsd could be configured to either hand out a referral or send SERVFAIL.
>
> 	It should be configured to hand out a referral.

if you do not include a hints file in nsd's database, it will return
SERVFAIL.

> >  bind9 will reply with REFUSED if the hints file is missing and it is
> >  configured to be authoritative only.
>
> 	Are you sure?  For which version of BIND 9?  My understanding is
> that they had a pre-compiled list of the root servers built into the
> source code, and that this would be used to generate the initial
> "hints" zone, thus allowing you to avoid having this file.  Indeed, I
> wouldn't be surprised at all if the built-in data over-rode the file,
> but maybe that's going too far.

if you set up bind9 with a authoritative-only view it will return REFUSED.
in a "normal" configuration, it will use pre-compiled root-hints.

	jakob