clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

At 7:47 PM +0100 2003/02/07, Jakob Schlyter wrote:

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

	Are you saying that it will hand out a referral if this 
information is configured into the database?  If so, then I would be 
much less unhappy with the way it is working.  Maybe this code isn't 
on by default, but it's much better than not being there at all.

>  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.

	Right, but REFUSED != SERVFAIL.

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