Two RFC2317 Questions
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Apr 10 13:49:55 UTC 2002
Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> wrote:
> In article <a8vkt3$2bn at pub3.rc.vix.com>, <phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote:
>>
>>Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>>> 2) swbell has included in their zone my four nameservers as well as
>>> their two nameservers. I have only my four nameservers in my zone.
>>> As swbell has not assigned me the whole Class-C subnet of their
>>> Class-B, they have the other half of that Class-B on their servers;
>>> that is why they include their nameservers as well as mine.
>>> My reading of the RFC leads me to believe that the zone should
>>> not reference the
>>
>>> ns[12].swbell.net
>>
>>> servers because they have delegated the 127 addresses to my servers.
>>> What should be in the NS records?
>>
>>All 6, otherwize you wall have a couple of Lame delegations.
> No you won't. A delegation is lame if the server isn't authoritative for
> the domain. Leaving out NS records doesn't affect whether a server is
> authoritative. As long as they've configured their servers as slaves for
> the subdomain, and Barry allows them to perform zone transfers, they'll be
> authoritative.
> Leaving out the NS records makes them "stealth secondaries".
Thanks for clearing this up, my fingers were faster then my brain :-)
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Woburn, MA
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