[30435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: g.root-servers.net returns NXDOMAIN for com.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Fri Aug 4 12:10:11 2000
To: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Date: 04 Aug 2000 16:07:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: Mark Milhollan's message of "Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:01:27 -0700"
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In article <27673.965401287@ftel.net>,
Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net> wrote:
> >Hence, if you randomly query the one server that is returning NXDOMAIN
> >for com, all com lookups will fail.
>
> This is why BIND 8 has the bogus characteristic, or why one may need to
> edit their root hint file. Too bad both require a reload/restart.
As well as manual configuration at every resolver on earth. I don't
think that's a scalable solution. The root servers need to work.
--
Shields.
