[30464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: g.root-servers.net returns NXDOMAIN for com.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Milhollan)
Mon Aug 7 12:32:41 2000
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <878zudau1s.fsf@challah.msrl.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:25:22 -0700
Message-ID: <32584.965665522@ftel.net>
From: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michael Shields writes:
>
>In article <27673.965401287@ftel.net>,
>Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Neither do I believe it is scalable, but it's what BIND has available.
More to the point, the reason for the bogus characteristic, as I read
the documentation, is that without it it's impossible to correct this
kind of situation -- scalable or not -- if a nameserver's operation
cannot be corrected.
