Re: Bogus nic.fr behavior

[Marco d'Itri]

On Feb 06, Robert Elz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 >>From where did this startling variation on accepted practice arrive?
 >All servers, when queried, should either return an answer (doing the
 >recursive thing if they want to, and that was requested in the query)
 >or should return a referral to a better server to ask.   When no other
People are supposed to send queries to an authoritative server only for
the zones it's authoritative for.
Can you explain why the server should return a referral for other
queries? This is broken behaviour anyway, and not replying may dissuade
people using it as their own recursive name server (which it is not).

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ciao,
Marco