clueing in TLD registries for delegations to non-BIND servers

At 3:01 AM +0100 2003/02/08, Brad Knowles wrote:

>>   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.

	Moreover, this isn't the default behaviour of BIND 9.  You have 
to go out of your way to make this configuration choice.  I'm okay 
with people choosing to configure their servers this way, but this 
isn't something that should be done by default.

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