Variations on lame delegations (terminology question)
Ladislav Vobr
lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae
Sat Oct 25 08:57:32 UTC 2003
Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
>>My understanding of a "lame delegation" is that a listed nameserver for
>>a zone is not authoritative for that zone.
>>
>>What terminology is/should be used if the listed nameserver isn't
>>a nameserver? I.e. if it isn't and never does run a DNS nameserver?
>>
>>And what if the NSDNAME of the NS record points to either a completely
>>non-existant node, or that node has no address records (A or AAAA)?
>
>
> They are all lame delegations.
hmm but for some reasons, isc bind lame-ttl option has a different
opinion, and considers server to be lame only in the first case :-(,
Ladislav
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