cTLD and DNS upgrade
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Jul 5 07:44:24 UTC 2005
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:31:29PM +0200,
> Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote
> a message of 25 lines which said:
>
> > > They are resolvers.
> >
> > Joy. More open recursive caching nameservers.
>
> By the way, I know that it is good practice to separate the
> authoritative function from the resolving/caching function (and I
> regret that BIND has no --authoritative-only option in its configure
> script).
Well authoritative servers still need their own resolver if
they are to support NOTIFY.
In the same way caching servers need a few local zones.
> But I wonder if there is today, with the current BIND, a specific
> technical reason to do so (such as a known security issue) or if it is
> just good practice to put widely different functions on different
> servers, just in case.
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