Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

[Mark . Andrews]

> There is also the issue of educating administrators on this methodology,
> which isn't the way that most forward delegation is carried out (e.g.
> one of nominum.com's name servers is ns-ext.vix.com, which doesn't fit
> in the "use only name servers in the domain to respond authoritatively
> for that domain" model.

        As a model for good DNS delegation it is overkill.

        A just as robust model is "a nameserver should be a official
        (not stealth) server for the zone it lives in".  ns-ext.vix.com
        fits this model as it is a server for vix.com.

        This leads to NS chains of length 1.

        Mark
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