Answers from com. nameservers
Adam Tkac
atkac at redhat.com
Wed Feb 13 15:32:14 UTC 2008
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:19:53PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:11:14PM +0100,
> Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote
> a message of 127 lines which said:
>
> > Could someone here please try explain me why all com. nameservers
> > returns NS delegation records in answer section but all other
> > servers returns them in authority section?
>
> Warning: flamewar ahead.
Hm :)
>
> The ".com" name servers (which use the Atlas software) follow an old
> rule (which was also followed by old BIND implementations) which is
> now widely regarded as incorrect.
>
I never heard about this problem before. Thanks for your
concisely answer.
> On every DNS-related mailing list, this issue (and the subvsequent
> flame war) pops every two or three months.
>
> > If both behaviors are correct
>
> Only one is correct, but since you cannot replace Verisign overnight,
> a DNS client has to deal with both behaviors.
>
> > then it looks that host utility is buggy
>
> Yes.
>
Ok, bugreport is going ahead.
Adam
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