[19841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UDP packet/DNS server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Mon Sep 28 21:40:38 1998
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
cc: jamie@ais.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 21:02:50 EDT."
<199809290102.VAA00100@cctvw02.cctec.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:28:38 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
> To reiterate the question posed by the original poster, (donning asbestos),
> why is this bad?
If you use a "*" as a label for an NS record, you will answer with a
referral for any label. *Any* label, not just the ones for which you
completed the receiving end of the zone cut. Think of it as the
ultimate lame delegation.
Stephen
