cTLD and DNS upgrade

[Simon Leinen]

Mark Andrews writes:
>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:44:24PM +1000,
>> Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote 
>> a message of 29 lines which said:
>> 
>> > 	Well authoritative servers still need their own resolver if
>> > 	they are to support NOTIFY.
>> 
>> They could call getaddrinfo() like anyone else.

> 	You must be kidding.

Can you elaborate? Are you worried about bootstrapping issues or what?

I must say that Stephane's suggestion makes sense to me: Add a
compile-time configuration option to suppress all caching/resolving
code for an authoritative-only nameserver, and use getaddrinfo() to
resolve names where necessary (finding implicit NOTIFY destinations).

For setups with distributed (anycast) recursive nameservers and/or
"notify explicit" this looks very feasible to me.
-- 
Simon.