[191231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloudflare reverse DNS SERVFAIL, normal?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Aug 29 20:01:50 2016
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:01:41 +1000
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In message <20160829234737.GA16137@cmadams.net>, Chris Adams writes:
> Once upon a time, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> said:
> > The following is general and is not directed at Cloudflare. I know
> > some people don't think errors in the reverse DNS are not critical
> > but if you are delegated a zone it is your responsablity to ensure
> > your servers are correctly serving that zone regardless of where
> > it is in the DNS heirarchy. Failure to do that causes additional
> > work for recursive servers. If you don't want to serve a zone then
> > remove the delegation.
>
> You are assuming that an authoritative server operator has some way to
> know all the zones people delegate to their servers, and remove such
> delegations if they don't want to handle them. That is a wrong
> assumption.
They have methods. They choose not to use them. See RFC 1033
COMPLAINTS then after that the court system.
Mark
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> Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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