Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

[Bruce Campbell]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, James Raftery wrote:

> And for IE too. An authoritative nameserver is authoritative for a
> finite set of zones. There is no reason to presume the auth. server's
> own A RR is in one of the zones it's serving.

Right.  Now that we've gotten that out of the way, can anyone suggest a
*reliable* test for verifying that a nameserver is responding ( which is
seperate from verifying that a nameserver is authoritatively serving a
given zone )

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