Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

[James Raftery]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:50:26AM +1000, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> 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 )

They are two different tests, but they can both be implemented with a
query for the zone you're trying to delegate. If the server answers,
then it's responding. Then you perform a further check for aa bit, 
valid SOA RR or whatever you queried for.

tinydns, out-of-the-box, does not respond to queries for zones it is not
authoritative for. Unnecessarily seperating your tests for 
responsiveness and authority may be problematic because of this.


Regards,
james
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